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Appendix 12
PPD Abbreviation for PostScript Printer Description. A file used to describe the resolution,
usable paper size, and the PostScript printer model special information.
Peer-to-peer A network format that allows connected devices to communicate without using a
dedicated server.
Plug-and-play Ability to automatically find and use the appropriate driver when a peripheral device
is connected to a computer.
Preview A function that allows you to view an image before processing a print or scan job.
Printer buffer Memory domain temporarily used for data processing of a print job
Print Job Print request transmitted from a computer to a printing device.
Print queue A software system which queues the generated print job in the devices.
Profile Color attribute file
The dedicated file that contains the summarized correlation of the input and output
of each primary color used so that the color input and output devices can reproduce
the color.
Property Attribute information
When using a printer driver, various functions can be specified in the file properties.
In the file properties, you can check the attribute information of the file.
Protocol The rules that allow computers to communicate with other computers or peripheral
devices
Proxy server A server that is installed to act as an intermediary connection between each client
and different servers to effectively ensure security over the entire system for Internet
connections.
PServer Print server module under a NetWare environment that monitors, changes, pauses,
restarts, or cancels a print job.
Queue name • Name specified to each device that allows printing when network printing.
• Required logical printer name for LPD/LPR printing
Resolution Displays the ability to reproduce the details of images and print matter correctly.
RIP Abbreviation for Raster Image Processor. Process that develops picture images from
described text data using the PostScript page description language. The processor
is usually integrated in the printer.
RGB Abbreviation for Red, Green, and Blue. Represents all colors by changing the bright-
ness ratio of the RGB 3 colors using the primary colors used by the color represen-
tation in a monitor.
Samba UNIX server software that uses SMB (Server Message Block) so that UNIX system
resources can be used from a Windows environment.
Screen font A font for displaying text and symbols on a CRT monitor.
Shared printer A printer setup that allows the printer to be used by multiple computers connected
to a server over a network.
SLP Abbreviation for Service Location Protocol. A protocol capable of finding services
over a TCP/IP network and automatically specifying a client.
SMB Abbreviation for Server Message Block. A protocol that shares files and printers over
a network and which is mainly used by Microsoft Windows.
SMTP Abbreviation for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. A protocol for sending and forward-
ing e-mail.
SNMP Abbreviation for Simple Network Management Protocol. A management protocol in
a network environment using TCP/IP.
Spool Abbreviation for Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line. For printer output, data
is not sent directly to the printer, it is temporarily stored in another location, then sent
to the printer collectively.
Subnet mask The unit used to divide a TCP/IP network into small networks (subnetworks). It is
used to identify the bits in a network address that are higher than the IP address.
TCP/IP Abbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The de facto
standard protocol used by the Internet that uses IP addresses to identify each net-
work device.
TrueType An outline font that was developed by Apple Computer and Microsoft. It is used as
a standard by Macintosh and Microsoft Windows and can be used both on a display
and in print.
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