Philips WORKIO DP-C262 - Manual (Page 50)

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Chapter 5 Appendix
Panasonic
Super-
Smoothing An electronic image enhancement (Panasonic Super Smoothing) that will create a particular pattern for the
improvement of copy quality.
PC The Personal Computer - Quite Simply a computer designed to be used by one person at a time.
PC Card A credit card sized removable module for portable computers. PC Cards are used to attach modems,
network adapters, sound cards, radio transceivers, solid state disks and hard disks to a portable computer.
PCL
(Printer
Control
Language) The page description language, which has become a de facto standard used in many printers and
typesetters. PCL Level 6 streamlines the graphics and font commands, reducing the amount of information
that has to be sent to the printer.
PDF Adobe ® Portable Document Format (PDF) is a universal file format that preserves all the fonts, formatting,
graphics, and color of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.
Polling The ability to retrieve a document from another machine.
Polling
Password A 4-digit programmed code that enables the security of a document being polled.
POP (Post
Office
Protocol) POP refers to the way Email software such as Eudora or your machine gets Email from a mail server.
You must always have a POP account that you tell your Email software to use to retrieve your mail.
Print
Reduction
Mode The methods used to determine how an incoming document will be reduced to print onto the paper loaded
in your machine.
Protocol A standard process, a set of rules & conditions that perform a particular function. A word which is very
common in PC & Internet Terminology.
Ex: FTP (File Transmission Protocol), IP Address (Internet Protocol Address), TCP/IP (Transmission
Control Protocol Internet Protocol), POP (Post Office Protocol)
PSTN
(Public
Switched
Telephone
Network) Public Switched Telephone Network. Network of interconnected switching equipment and transmission
facilities.
Receiver
Password A 4-digit password that is checked before a document is received.
Relay
Address A 3-digit code that identifies your machine is programmed in a relay network.
Relay
Network A group of machines that communicate via a relay station.
Resolution This relates to the quality of a viewed image either on the PC Screen or printed output. For printed images
the resolutions is measured in dots per inch or DPI. The higher the DPI the better the resolution and better
image quality.
Router
(Gateway) A special purpose computer ( or software package) that handles the connection between 2 or more
networks.
Gateways act like traffic cops, they spend their time looking at the destination addresses of the packets
passing through them and deciding which route to send them on.
Term Meaning