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CardJet 410 Card Printer/Encoder and Persona CardJet C7 Printer User Guide (Rev. 6.1)
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Glossary of Terms (continued)
Term
Definition
Full bleed
Printing that covers the entire card surface.
Gamma
The degree of contrast of an image or the display of a monitor
determined by the slope of a characteristic curve relating optical
density to relative log exposure.
Graphical Device
Interface (GDI)
A Windows standard for protocol between Drivers and
applications and the Windows interface. An application uses a
Driver to rasterize the data in the format necessary for the Printer
but also for the Windows interface to execute the print
commands.
Gray Scale
A graduation through the various brightness levels from white to
black.
Halftoning
A process in monochrome printing that simulates continuous tone
by using changes to the distribution of single dots. Increasing the
number of dots in a given area increases the darkness even
though the individual dots stay the same size.
Hard Drive
A high capacity storage device in a PC consisting of non-
removable magnetically encodable platters.
Hardware
Physical components of a system such as the Printer, the PC, the
power supply.
HiCo (High
Coercivity)
The coercivity value of magnetic media between 2500 - 4000 Oe
(ISO 7811-6). Fargo's High Coercivity encodes at 2750 Oe.
HTML (HyperText
Markup Language)
A standard protocol used to format text files for use in a browser
or on the Internet.
HTTP (HyperText
Transfer Protocol)
A standard protocol by which computers can transfer data,
compatible through multiple platforms.
IC (Integrated Circuit) An electronic device that contains many individual circuits
interconnected and placed within a discrete package.
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