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Glossary
portrait
See orientation.
PostScript
See personality.
printable area
The area of a page on which the printer can reproduce text or graphics. There is a very
small border around the edge of the paper where nothing can be printed.
print density
The relative thickness of printed lines. The thicker the line, the darker it looks.
printer control panel
The panel on the front of the printer that consists of the indicators, buttons and display.
Use the printer control panel to take the printer off-line and on-line and to change the
printing environment settings.
printer driver
A program that sets up and controls communication between the printer and the host
computer.
printing environment
Printing conditions such as font selection, line spacing, page format, number of copies,
etc. Use your software application program to set up how your printer operates.
However, if this is not possible, you can also use the printer control panel buttons to
set up the printing environment.
proportional spacing
Printed text where each character is of a different width. For example, if you look
closely at a proportionally spaced text you see that a W is much wider than an I .
Documents prepared using proportional spacing have a more professional look.
protocol
Values required for communication between the host computer and printer. Use the
printer control panel buttons to set up the printing environment parameters for the
parallel interface or optional network interface cards.
PS
Stands for proportional spacing. (also PostScript)