Olivetti JP 90 - Glossary; ASCII-table; BIM

Glossary
ASCII-table
(AmericanStandardCodeofInformationInter-change);
standardizedcodeandcharacterassignmenttablefrom0to
127decimal.
BIM
(BitImageMode);graphicprintingmode,inwhichabyteis
notinterpretedascharacter.Itsbitscausetheindividual
nozzles of theprint head to print or not.
bit
Smallestinformationitem;asignalsetto0or1.Eightbits
makeonebyte(character).
BOF
(BottomOfForm);theareaatthefootofeachform,inwhich
printingwillnotbepossible(itwillbeskippedautomatically).
buffer
Built-inmemoryintheprinter,inwhichdatawillbestored
untilitisprinted.
byte
Standardunitforcharacter/symbolrepresentation.Abyte
consistsof8bits.
charactergenerator
Aresidentprinterprogram,whichconvertsacharactercode
(byte)intoapixelmatrixforprinting.
characterset
Assignmenttablebetweenacodeandaspecificprintable
character(usuallyinconnectionwithnationallanguages).
compressedprinting
See “condensed printing”
condensedprinting
Aprintmodewhichnormallyhasacharacterspacingdensity
higher than 12 cpi (16.6 or 20 cpi).
cpi
Charactersperinch;indicatesthenumberofcharacters
whichcanbeprintedinoneinch.
dB(decibel)
Unitofmeasurementforsound.
default
Thestandardinitialsettingofafeatureoraparameter.Can
usuallybemodified.
dotmatrix
Printingtechnologywhichcreatescharacters(andgraphics)
bythecompositionofprogrammedcolumnsofdots.
dotsize
Sizeofthesmallestelementusedtocreatethecharacter
image(defaultvalue:1/72in).
doublewidthprinting
Eachcharacter(evenSPACE)isstretchedhorizontallyto
doublethenominalpitchwidth.
English
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