Minolta PAGEPRO PLUS, Manual

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Serial Interface
A connection between the computer and a peripheral device such
as a printer, by which data is transferred sequentially over a single
wire. Currently, this is a faster alternative to the parallel interface
of which the USB interface is an example.
Soft fonts
The non-resident fonts that can be downloaded from the computer
to the printer memory.
Spooling
Sending a document to the print queue rather than directly to the
printer. Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 stores the print queue on the hard
disk and then sends the print jobs to the printer in the order
received. Spooling frees the application you are using for other
tasks.
Symbol set
The set of characters used in a font. Most symbol sets contain
standard letters, numbers, and punctuation. Symbol sets differ in
the accented characters, line drawing characters and special
symbols that they contain. ASCII, Roman-8 and PC-8 are
examples of symbol sets.
TrueType fonts
Scalable outline fonts that use a single outline for both screen
display and printing. TrueType fonts can be scaled to any point size
and print exactly as they appear on the screen with higher
resolution.
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