3 glossary, Glossary -8 – Konica Minolta bizhub C300 User Manual

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Glossary

Term

Definition

10Base-T/100Base-TX/
1000Base-T

An Ethernet standard, which is a cable consisting of twisted copper
wire pairs. The transmission speed of 10Base-T is 10 Mbps, of
100Base-TX is 100 Mbps, and of 1000Base-T is 1000 Mbps.

Active directory

A service that manages all information such as hardware resources
for servers, clients, and printers on a network supported by Micro-
soft and the attributes and access permissions of the users

anonymous FTP

While normal FTP sites are protected by an account name and pass-
word, this type of FTP site can be used by anyone without a pass-
word by simply entering “anonymous” as the account name.

APOP

Abbreviation for Authenticated Post Office Protocol. An authentica-
tion method with encrypted passwords, which results in increased
safety, as compared to the usual unencrypted passwords used by
POP to retrieve e-mail messages

AppleTalk

A generic name for the protocol suite developed by Apple Computer
for computer networking

Auto IP

A function for automatically acquiring the IP address. If acquisition
of the IP address failed with DHCP, an IP address is acquired from
the address space of 169.254.0.0.

bit

Abbreviation for Binary Digit. The smallest unit of information (data
quantity) on a computer or printer. Displays data using 0 or 1.

BMP

Abbreviation for Bitmap. A file format for saving image data which
uses the .bmp extension. Commonly used on Windows platforms.
You can specify the color depth from monochrome (2 values) to full
color (16,777,216 colors). Images are not usually compressed when
saved.

Bonjour

Macintosh network technology for automatically detecting devices
connected to the network and for specifying settings. Previously
called “Rendezvous”, the name was changed to “Bonjour” starting
with Mac OS X v10.4.

Byte

Unit of information (data quantity) on a computer or printer. Config-
ured as 1 byte equals 8 bits.

Client

A computer that uses the services provided by a server through a
network

Compact PDF

Compression method for reducing the data amount using the PDF
format when converting color documents to data.
The highest compression efficiency is achieved by identifying the
text and image regions and using the resolution and compression
method most appropriate for each region.
The compact PDF format can be selected when converting docu-
ments to data using the scanning functions of this machine.

Contrast

The difference in intensity between the light and dark parts of the im-
age (light/dark variation). An image with little light/dark variation is
said to have a low contrast, and an image with large light/dark vari-
ation is said to have a high contrast.

CSV

Abbreviation for Comma Separated Values. One of the formats for
saving database or spreadsheet data as a text file. (The file extension
is “.csv”.) The data, which is separated by commas (as the delimiter),
can be shared by different applications.

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