HP 1050c Service Manual - Page 312

Glossary HP-GL/2 One of Hewlett-Packard's standard graphics languages for plotters and printers. Produces vector data. Newer than HP-GL. IDS Ink Delivery System. I/O Input/output The transmission of data between a computer and a device. inked area The smallest rectangle that contains all the content of the drawing, while maintaining its relative dimensions. margin The space around the page added by the printer to separate one page from another and to avoid printing right to the edge of the media. matte Not glossy. media The material, usually paper, onto which the printer prints. nesting Placing two or more pages side-by-side on roll media to avoid waste. ISO size palette An international standard media size; e.g. A1, A set of logical pens defined by color and A2, etc. width. ISS Paper-axis Ink Supply Station The vertical axis, as you look at the printer JIS size from the front. A Japanese standard media size. PJL LAN Printer Job Language. A programming language that controls jobs going to a printer. Local area network. PML LDS Printer Management Language. Leak Detect System parallel interface long-axis printing A type of interface between computer and Printing a page whose X-axis (the axis vertical device. Generally faster than a serial interface. to the printer as you look at it from the front) is longer than a standard page size. G-2