| Understanding printer terminology helps one to | | | | Different terms used to explain types of printing |
| search for, select and operate printers in a better | | | | are duplex printing, 4x6 printing, 6 ink printing, 7 |
| and effective way. One of these important printer | | | | ink printing and 8 ink printing. Of these, duplex |
| terms is DPI which stands for Dots per inch. It is | | | | printing refers to two sided printing whereby the |
| a quantity used to define the resolution of printer | | | | printer itself reverses the page after one of the |
| images. The higher the DPI, the greater will be the | | | | sides has been printed. 4x6 printing produces |
| details with which the image is displayed. The | | | | photograph of snapshot size, while 6, 7 and 8 ink |
| term used to measure the printing speed is | | | | printing technologies employ multiple inks to |
| known as PPM. PPM stands for pages per minute | | | | produce high quality, clear and bright results. |
| and defines the number of pages printed by a | | | | Anti aliasing is an important technology whereby a |
| machine in one minute. | | | | printer applies mathematical formulae to improve |
| Another important term used to define the | | | | the resolution of character edges.Letter Quality |
| performance of a printer is bit depth. It defines | | | | refers to a printer that is able to produce text |
| the number of various color tones linked with a | | | | similar to that produced by a type writer. Near |
| dot. A bit depth of 1 implies 2 colors, a depth of 8 | | | | letter quality refers to dot matrix printers which |
| implies 256 colors and that of 24 implies 16.7 | | | | produce text almost similar to that produced by a |
| million colors. Color balance is a term used to | | | | letter quality printer. |
| describe the print quality. It is a measure of an | | | | Paper capacity indicates the maximum number of |
| image color cast. Duty cycle is the number of | | | | printer papers or other media a printer tray is |
| printed pages a printer can produce as an output. | | | | able to contain. Print zone refers to the part of |
| AIO and MFP stand for All in one and Multifunction | | | | the sheet on which the printer is supposed to |
| Printer respectively. These terms refer to | | | | print. |
| machines that are a combination of printer, copier | | | | Borderless printing is a terminology used to define |
| and scanner. An inkjet printer terminology is | | | | a technique whereby photos are produced by a |
| CYMK which defines the inkjet colors. In CYMK, C | | | | printer with no blank spaces at the edges of the |
| stands for cyan, Y stands for yellow, M stands | | | | page. Brightness refers to the lightness or |
| for magenta and K stands for black. A term used | | | | darkness of the printed image. A pixel refers to |
| as an alternative for printer brand name is OEM | | | | one of the thousand dots of which a digital |
| ink cartridges or printers which stands for Original | | | | photograph is made of. |
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