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N/A Not available or not applicable.
NL New Line (3287 only).
NLQ Abbreviation for near letter quality font. This is the
highest resolution mode supported on the 6500-D.
Not Ready Mode Offline. The printer is not ready to receive and process
commands and data.
nS Nanosecond
NVFU Direct Access Vertical Format Unit. See also DAVFU .
NVRAM Abbreviation for non-volatile random access memory.
The storage is permanent, in the sense that information
is not lost when the printer is powered off.
OCR Abbreviation for Optical Character Recognition. A
process by which a machine can “read” characters
printed in a special standardized font. Data are read by a
photoelectric optical scanner and can be recorded on
magnetic tape or disk. OCR-A and OCR-B are two widely
used OCR fonts.
Ohm A unit of measurement for electrical resistance.
PA Program Attention. Used in application programs.
parity (check) Parity checking is the addition of non-data bits to data,
resulting in the number of bits that are set to a “1” being
either always even or always odd. Parity is used to detect
data errors.
PC Personal Computer
PCBA Printed Circuit Board Assembly
pel The smallest element of a physcial medium that can be
independently assigned color and intensity. Pels per inch
is often used as a measurement of presentation
granularity. Synonymous with picture element, pixel.
PI Abbreviation for Paper Instruction. A physical hardware I/
O line used in conjunction with the eight data bit lines.
When PI is set high, it indicates that the eight data bits
are interpreted as a paper motion command instead of
printable data.
pica A name indicating a monospaced font with a pitch of 10
cpi (and usually 12 points in height). Pica is also used in
typography as a unit of measurement equal to 1/6 inch.
pitch The number of text characters printed per horizontal inch.
Specified in characters per inch or cpi.
pixel Derived from picture (PIX) ELement. The smallest
displayable picture element on a video monitor or
printable unit. In printing, a pixel is a dot.