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Default A value, parameter, attribute, or option that is
assigned by a program or system when another has
not been specified by the user.
Diagnostic Pertaining to the detection and isolation of a printer
malfunction or mistake.
Media Media coated with special chemicals that act as an
accelerator, acceptor dye, and binder. In Direct
Thermal mode, the heat from the selected
rectangular elements in the thermal printhead makes
direct contact with the media (no ribbon is used) and
causes a chemical reaction that creates the image
on
the media.
Printing A printing method in which no ribbon is used to
transfer data from the printhead to the media to
create an image. The thermal printhead selectively
heats small rectangular elements which make direct
contact with the coated media.
DRAM Dynamic Random Access Memory. Can be read
from or written to at any time. DRAM is volatile:
whatever is in DRAM is lost when power is turned
off.
Fanfold Media Media supplied in a fanfold stack instead of a roll format.
Flash Memory Printer configurations, programs, downloaded files, and
fonts are stored in Flash Memory. Data in Flash
are not
lost when power is turned off (Resident fonts
are fonts
permanently stored in Flash and availalbe
at any time, via
software commands.)
Font A collection of printing characteristics for printing
alphanumeric characters, all of which combine to
produce
a distinctive style of print.
Host Computer The computer that stores, processes, and sends data to
be printed, which communicates directly with
the printer.
The term “host” is used to indicate the
controlling
computer, since modern printers are
themselves
microprocessor-controlled computer
systems.
Interface The hardware component used to link two devices by
common physical interconnection, signal, and
functional
characteristics.
IPS The speed at which the media is printed based on a
rate of Inches-Per-Second.
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