HP Designjet 2000/3000cp HP DesignJet 2500/2000CP Printer - User's Guide - Page 324

Glossary HP-GL/2 One of Hewlett-Packard's standard graphics languages for plotters and printers. Produces vector data. Newer than HP-GL. media weight The media weight is designed to give the media path a loop shape just before it is wound onto the Take Up Core. I/O Input/output MIO Modular input/output The transmission of data between a computer and a Refers to the printer's network interface. device. nesting inked area Placing two or more pages side-by-side on roll media The smallest rectangle that contains all the content of to avoid waste. the drawing, while maintaining its relative dimensions. palette ISO size A set of logical pens defined by color and width. An international standard media size; e.g. A1, A2, PJL etc. Printer Job Language. A programming language that JIS size controls jobs going to a printer. A Japanese standard media size. PML LAN Printer Management Language. Local area network. parallel interface long-axis printing A type of interface between computer and device. Generally faster than a serial interface. Printing a page whose X-axis (the axis vertical to the printer as you look at it from the front) is longer than PANTONE a standard page size. The PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® is an margin international standard for color communication in the graphics art industry. The space around the page added by the printer to separate one page from another and to avoid printing pen right to the edge of the media. Even though the plotter has no physical pens, the matte lines it draws match the attributes of a pen. Not glossy. platen media The exterior part of the printer on which the media rests before going into the media-entry slot. The material, usually paper, onto which the printer prints. printing area Page size minus margins. G-2