Xerox 4215 MICR MRP Installation Guide

GLOSSARY

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XEROX MRP FAMILY INTELLIGENT PRINTER DATA STREAM (IPDS)

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Resource object containing text, images, graphics, or bar code
data.  Overlays defined their own environment.

Group of IPDS commands used to store and name data on the
printer for repeated use.

Resource object containing text, images, graphics, or bar code
data processed in the existing page environment.

Hewlett–Packard Printer Control Language.

Paper on which you print information.

pel.  The smallest printable unit that can be printed.  Also called
pixel or dot.

Communications connection from a computer to the printer,
suitable for attaching a single line.  

Page orientation in which the output is printed parallel to the
shorter edge of the page.  See also landscape.

Standardized bar code symbology.

Text, images, graphics, and bar codes.

Downloaded fonts, overlays, and page segments.

Instructions sent to the printer through application software
programs, which change printing variables, such as page
orientation, margins, and fonts. 

Print Services Facility.  PSF is the print driver that converts
Systems Application Architecture (SAA) source applications data
to IPDS (Intelligent Printer Data Stream).  PSF also converts
Advanced Function Presentation Data Stream (AFPDS) to IPDS.  

SNA Character String.  One logical record that is physically sent
to the printer in several parts, each of which is exactly 256 bytes
long with the exception of the last part.  The SCS data stream
consists of a 1–byte printer control code followed by the data to
be printed.   

Systems Network Architecture.  Defines message formats and
protocols for IBM network communications.

Printer capability to print data on one side of the page.

IBM architecture that defines a set of rules to receive, route, and
send electronic mail in a network of systems.