From brigc@world.std.com Tue Jan 28 10:52:26 1997 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Path: stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!news.he.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!dciteleport.com!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!uucp2.uu.net!world!brigc From: brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) Subject: comp.periphs.printers - FAQ - Part 11 of 11 Version: 3.09 Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers Last-Modified: 1997/01/05 Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) about printers and should be read by anyone wishing to post to the comp.periphs.printers newsgroup. Sender: brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) Reply-To: brigc@world.std.com Organization: Southeast Kansas Library System, Iola, KS Posting-Frequency: monthly Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:30:34 GMT Archive-Name: comp-periphs-printers-faq Expires: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00:00 GMT Lines: 98 Subject: 11 Glossary Thanks to Arthur Muller for 99 and 44/100s of this part. AFP Advanced Function Printing (IBM) ANSI American National Standards Institute ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange BBS Bulletin Board System CaPSL Canon Printing System Language (See LIPS) CMYK Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black cpi Characters Per Inch (?) cps Characters Per Second CR Carriage Return CRT Cathode Ray Tube CTS Clear To Send DCD Data Carrier Detect DCE Data Circuit-terminating Equipment DIN Deutsche Industrie Norm dpi Dots Per Inch DSR Data Set Ready DTE Data Terminating Equipment EBCDIC Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code EOF End Of File EOL End Of Line ESC/P Epson Standard Code for Printers ESC/P2 Epson Standard Code for Printers, Level 2 FF Form Feed FIFO First-In First-Out FILO First-In Last-Out (same as LIFO) FTP File Transfer Program GNU Gnu's Not UNIX GOCA Graphic Object Content Architecture GPL GNU General Public License HP Hewlett Packard I/O Input / Output IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers IOCA Image Object Content Architecture IPDS Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IBM) ISO International Standards Organization LAN Local Area Network LED Light Emitting Diode LF Line Feed LIPS Laser-beam Image Processing System (See CaPSL) lpi Lines Per Inch LQ Letter Quality MB/Mb Mega Bytes/bits MO:DCA Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (IBM) PCL HP printer language PJL Printer Job Language (Hewlett Packard) ppm Pages Per Minute pps pages per second PTOCA Print Text Object Content Architecture RENO standard emulation for Agfa printers RGB Red-Green-Blue SAA System Application Architecture (IBM) SCSI Small Computer Systems Interface SPOOL Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On Line TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol TI Texas Instruments UART Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter _______________ Subject: 12 Credits The information in this FAQ came from postings to comp.periphs.printers, information which vendors and readers of comp.periphs.printers have been kind enough to send me, and information I had on hand. Any errors are, of course, my own fault. If you see something wrong, please let me know and I'll correct it as soon as possible. Remember, as with most things involving the Internet, your own mileage may vary. Special mention must be made of the contributions made by Johannes Schmidt-Fischer who's actually written HUGE amounts of this. Thanks Johannes. Additionally, I must recognize the help of Arthur Muller who's been able to provide contact and world wide web information on lots of vendors I didn't have. Thanks Arthur. Several of the BBS numbers in Subject 10 came from the Technical Support BBS'S Commercial and Shareware document produced by . Call Digicom BBS at 812 479-1310 for the latest version of his list, which includes lots of additional hardware/software support bbs. Some formatting ideas for this were taken from the CDROMLAN- FAQ maintained by Greg Gibbs and from "FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format" by Chris Lewis clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca. | And, as always, thanks Marlowe. :) ===== End of Part 11 of 11