HP Designjet 700 Printer series User Manual

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high-gloss photo

A glossy, opaque photographic

paper.

HP-GL

One of Hewlett-Packard’s standard

graphics languages for plotters and printers.
Produces vector data. Forerunner to HP-GL/2.

HP-GL/2

One of Hewlett-Packard’s standard

graphics languages for plotters and printers.
Produces vector data. Newer than HP-GL.

I/O

Input/output. The transmission of data

between a computer and a device.

inked area

The smallest rectangle that contains

all the content of the drawing, while maintaining its
relative dimensions.

ISO size

An international standard paper size; e.g.

A1, A2, etc.

JIS size

A Japanese standard paper size.

LAN

Local area network.

long-axis printing

Printing a page whose X-axis

(the axis vertical to the printer as you look at it from
the front) is longer than a standard page size.

margin

The space around the page added by the

printer to separate one page from another and to
avoid printing right to the edge of the media.

matte

Not glossy.

matte film

Opaque, polyester media type.

media

The material, usually paper, onto which the

printer prints.

media bin

The catcher situated below the printer.

MIO

Modular input/output. Refers to the

printer’s network interface.

nesting

Placing two or more pages side-by-side

on the media to avoid waste.

opaque bond

A matte paper media.

palette

A set of logical pens defined by color and

width.

PJL

Printer Job Language. A programming

language that controls jobs going to a printer.

PML

Printer management language.

parallel interface

A type of interface between

computer and device. Generally faster than a serial
interface.

PANTONE

The PANTONE MATCHING

SYSTEM

R is an international standard for color

communication in the graphics art industry.

pen

Even though the plotter has no physical pens,

the lines it draws match the attributes of a pen.

platen

The exterior part of the printer on which

the media rests before going into the media-entry
slot.

printing area

Page size minus margins.

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