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Orientation
The printing of text either along the width (portrait) or length
(landscape) of the page.
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Paper feed
The act of guiding a sheet of paper into the machine’s paper path.
Paper jam
A situation created when paper becomes caught along the paper
path. You must remove jammed paper before you can continue
printing.
Paper path
The route that paper travels through the machine.
Paper type
All kinds of paper (plain paper, heavy paper, transparencies, and
envelopes) are grouped under several paper types.
Stands for Portable Document Format. A widely used format for
transmitting and viewing documents on computers. PDF
documents can be read or printed out with Adobe’s Acrobat
Reader program.
Physical RAM
Random Access Memory (RAM) that is physically present in the
computer in the form of memory chips, as opposed to virtual
memory. See also Virtual Memory.
Point size
Character height is defined in points: one point is 1/72 of an inch.
Portrait
A vertical print orientation. Text and graphics are printed across
the shorter axis of the page.
Preview
Provisional scanning and display of the document you are about
to scan before you actually scan it. If the preview scan looks
different from what you want, you can change the settings, display
the preview again and confirm before scanning.
Print job
A document that a Windows application has processed and sent
to the Spooler to be added to the print queue or directly to the
machine.
Print queue
A list of files that are either waiting to be printed or are currently
printing. Once a file has been printed, it is removed from the print
queue.
Printer driver
A program that controls how the computer and printer interact.
The printer driver supplies Windows with information such as
descriptions of fonts and features of the installed printer.
Printers and Faxes folder (Printers folder)
The container in which your printer and fax information is stored.
Properties dialog box
The dialog box that contains information about a particular
device, such as a printer.
Proportional spacing
The spacing of characters according to the width of each
character. This variable spacing between each character closes
up awkward space and makes text easier to read.