Epson 1520 User Manual - Page 157

Glossary banding buffer character table characters per inch (cpi) CMYK ColorSync default dithering dpi driver The horizontal lines that sometimes appear when printing graphics. See also MicroWeave. The portion of the printer's memory used to store data before printing it. A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols that provides you with the characters used in a particular language. A measure of the size of text characters, sometimes referred to as pitch. Cyan (blue-green), magenta, yellow, and black. These colored inks are used to create the subtractive system array of printed colors. Macintosh software that is designed to help you get WYSIWIG (what you see is what you get) output. This software prints colors as you see them on your screen. A value or setting that takes effect when the equipment is turned on, reset, or initialized. A halftoning method in which dots are arranged in an orderly pattern. Dithering works best for printing images with solid colors, such as charts and graphs. See also halftoning. Dots per inch. The dpi measures the resolution. See also resolution. A software program that sends instructions to a computer device to tell it what to do. For example, your printer driver accepts print data from your word processing application and sends instructions to the printer on how to print this data. G-1