Canon B550 - Manual (Page 129)

Glossary
AC
Alternating current. The type oi’ electrical current
available from a wall outlet.
Activity report
.lournal of transactions, both sent and received.
ADF
Automatic Document Feeder. The document tray
on the FAXPHONE holds 20 sheets of paper.
Auto Halftone
The document setting you use for sending documents
with intermediate tones, such as photographs.
Automatic dialing
Dialing fa.x or telephone numbers by pressing one
or three buttons. To use automatic dialing, you must
register the numbers in the FAXPHONE’s memory.
.See also One-touch Speed Dialing. Coded Speed
Dialing, and Group dialing.
ANS HOOK UP/MANUAL
The icons and button that indicate and control how
the FAXPHONE detects whether a call is from a fax
or a telephone. When you use the F.AXPHONE w ith
an answ ering machine, set the ANS HOOK UP icon
on 'o the answering machine will pick up the calls.
When the MANUAL icon appears, the FAXPHONE
w ill work as a telephone until you manually engage
It to receive a faxed document. When no icon ap­
pears. the FAXPHONE is m automatic mode and
w ill use the FAX/TEL switching capabilities.
Auto FAX/TEL switching
See F.AX/TEL sw itchins.
B
Bi-directional printing
The ability of the FAXPHONE to print both left to
right and right to left. This printing method pro­
vides a fast speed. See also Undirectional printing.
bps
Bits per second. Refers to the speed with which a
fax machine sends and receives data.
Broadcasting
Transmitting documents to more than one location
(throuch the FAXPHONE's memorv).
Bubble Jet printing
An ink-jet type printing method that heats the ink to
the boiling point to form a bubble. When the bubble
expands, there is no room left in the no/zle for the
ink and the ink is projected onto the paper.
Cem #1 Chart
A test chart, defined by CCITT. used to measure the
transmission speed as w'ell as the transmitting and
receiving memory capacity of a fax machine.
CCITT/ITU-TS
Formerly known as CCITT, Consultative Commit­
tee for International Telegraph and Telephone.
CCITT has been replaced by the International Tele­
communications Union-Telecommunications Sector
(ITU-TS), a committee created to set international
standards for telecommunications.
CNG
Calling Tone. This is a signal sent by fax machines
to identify the call as an incoming document. When
the receiving fax detects this signal, it automatically
starts to receive the fax transmission. The majority
of fax machines in use today can send and detect
CNG signals.
Coded Speed Dialing
An automatic dialing method that allows you to dial
a fax or telephone number by pressing three buttons-
[CODED DIAL/DIRECTORY] and a two-digit code
using the numeric buttons. You can register up to 50
Coded Speed Dialing numbers in the FAXPHONE.
Cursor
The underline symbol you see on the LCD w hen you
register numbers and names in the FAXPHONLi.
Press the arrow buttons to move the cursor.
Delayed Sending
The ability to send a document at a preset time in
the future. You do not have to be in your office to
use Delayed Sending to one or more destinations.
(You can set up only one delayed transmission at a
time on the FAXPHONE)
Density control
A setting that darkens or lightens the scanning of
documents.
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