Printer terms

Updated: 12/26/2023 by Computer Hope

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.

Typography terms
Top 10 printer terms
Vector graphics plotter machine

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
Ink cartridges for a printer

Carbon ribbon
Cartridge
Centronics
Character printer
Cloth ribbon
Cloud printer
Cloud printing
CMYK
Code 128
Collate
Color printer
Common Unix Printing System
CUPS

D
Dot matrix printer

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
Inkjet printer

ICC
IEEE 1284
Imagesetter
ImageWriter
Impact printer
Indigo
Ink
Ink cartridge
Inkjet printer
Inkjet printhead
Internal font
International Color Consortium

J

Currently, no listings.

K

Currently, no listings.

L
Laser printer

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
Paper jam

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
Toner cartridge for a Brother laser printer

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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