Fujitsu DL3700 User Manual - Page 240

GLOSSARY OF TERMS K byte Letter size Line feed (LF) Line spacing Ipi Monospacing Nonresident font Normal mode Offline Online Parallel interface GL-4 Kilobyte. 1K byte equals 1024 bytes. A standard paper size used in the United States and other countries. Paper is 8-1/2 11 inches (215.9 V 279.4 mm). A signal to the printer that advances the paper forward one line. Line feeds can be executed either by your software or by pressing the LF/FF button on the printer control panel. The vertical spacing between lines, measured in lines per inch. Lines per inch. Used to measure line spacing. Character spacing in which each printed character has the same width. Also called fixed pitch, monospacing is the opposite of proportional spacing. Typewriter or computer-printed text is typically monospaced. Fonts not present (resident) in the printer's permanent memory. Soft fonts and fonts on font cards are examples of nonresident fonts. Nur One of the printer's two operating modes. In normal mode, the control panel can be used to perform everyday printer operations, such as loading and unloading paper, feeding paper, and selecting print features. See also Setup mode. When the printer is offline, it receives commands from the printer control panel rather than from the computer. "Offline" indicates that the printer is not "online" with the computer. When the printer is online, it is ready to receive or is receiving commands from the computer. The printer must be online to print. A standard computer interface. Information is transferred between devices over separate wires, allowing all of the bits that make up the character to be transmitted simultaneously (in parallel). User's Manual