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About this manual
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Spool
—Write to a disk. Usually used in this manual to refer to a PostScript print job
being saved to the Fiery hard disk in preparation for processing and printing.
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RIP
—Acronym for raster image processing, which changes PostScript commands
into descriptions of each mark on a page. In common use as a noun, a “raster image
processor” (RIP) is the computer processor that performs this function.
The Fiery RIP changes text and graphics commands in PostScript into specifications
for each dot of toner deposited on a page by the copier/printer.
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Process
—The term “process” is used interchangeably with the term “RIP” in this
manual to refer to raster image processing.
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—The task of rendering, or imaging, a page or job on a print device.
These concepts can explain how the Fiery and the copier/printer work together as a
powerful printing system.
