Printer terms

Printer terms with full definitions and information on each term. Explore this list of over 180 terms like plotter, inkjet printer, hard copy, and 3D printer. Navigate quickly through the list by clicking one of the letters below; for example, click 'L' to find terms like 'laser printer' in the 'L' section.

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Top 10 printer terms
Output device Printer Pen Plotter Page setup Print Screen key Print preview Landscape mode Centronics Hard copy Print spooler
Number
3D Printer 4 color printing
A
A4 AIO
B
Bidirectional Bleed Borderless printing Bubble Jet Printer
C
Carbon ribbon Cartridge Centronics Character printer Cloth ribbon Cloud printer Cloud printing CMYK Code 128 Collate Color printer Common Unix Printing System CUPS
D
Daisy wheel Daisy wheel printer Default printer DOD Dot matrix Dot matrix printer Dot matrix printhead Dot Per Inch Downloadable font DPI Draft mode Draft quality Drop-on-demand Drum Drum plotter Dumb printer
E
Easy Capture Manager ECP Electrophotography EPP EPS
F
Fanfold paper FF Flatbed plotter Folio Font cartridge Font scaling Form feed Four-color process Friction feed
G
Gamma correction GPPM Graphic pages per minute Graphics printer Greeking Gummed stock
H
Halftone Hard copy Hard font Head cleaning HPGL HP LaserJet HP Printer
I
ICC IEEE 1284 Imagesetter ImageWriter Impact printer Indigo Ink Ink cartridge Inkjet printer Inkjet printhead Internal font International Color Consortium
J
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K
Currently, no listings.
L
Landscape mode LaserJet Laser printer Laser printer printhead Laser printing Laser scanner assembly Laser toner Laser unit LaserWriter LED printer Letter-quality Letter-quality printer LF Line caps Linefeed Line printer Line Printer Terminal Lines per inch Location-aware printing Logic-seeking printer LPD LPI LPM LPT LQ
M
Margin Moire MPP-1150
N
Near typeset-quality Network Printer Nibble Mode NIP NLQ Nonimpact printer Nonprinting codes Nozzle
O
Offset printing Orientation Output device Overprint
P
Page markup Page orientation Page printer Page setup Page size Pages per minute Pagination Pantone Matching System Paper Paper feed Paper jam Parallel port Parallel printer PCL PDL Pen Plotter Photocomposition Photolithography Phototypesetter Pica Pin feed Platen Plotter PMS Portrait mode PostScript PostScript clone PPM Prepress Print Printable area Print area Print buffer Printer Printer Command Language Printer driver Printer engine Printer font Printer head Printer port Printer screen Printer self-cleaning Printer software Printhead Printing orientation Print job Printout Print preview Print quality Print Screen key Print server Print spooler Print wheel PRN Process color
Q
Currently, no listings.
R
Registration mark Repaginate Resolution enhancement
S
Serial printer Shadow printing Sheet feeder Slug area Soft font Solid inkjet printer Solid-ink printer Sound hood Spool Spool folder Spooling Spot color SPP
T
Thermal paper Thermal printer Thermal printhead Thermal transfer paper Thimble printer Toner Toner cartridge Trichromatic
U
Undercolor separation Unidirectional
V
Vector graphic Vector image
W
WYSIWYG WYSIWYP
X
XPS Document Writer
Y
Currently, no listings.
Z
Zapf dingbat

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