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Glossary
The following glossary helps you get familiar with the product by
understanding the terminologies commonly used with printing as well as
mentioned in this user’s guide.
802.11
802.11 is a set of standards for wireless local area network (WLAN) communication,
developed by the IEEE LAN/MAN Standards Committee (IEEE 802).
802.11b/g/n
802.11b/g/n can share same hardware and use the 2.4 GHz band. 802.11b supports
bandwidth up to 11 Mbps, 802.11n supports bandwidth up to 150 Mbps. 802.11b/g/
n devices may occasionally suffer interference from microwave ovens, cordless
telephones, and Bluetooth devices.
Access point
Access Point or Wireless Access Point (AP or WAP) is a device that connects wireless
communication devices together on wireless local area networks (WLAN), and acts
as a central transmitter and receiver of WLAN radio signals.
ADF
An Automatic Document Feeder (ADF) is a scanning unit that will automatically feed
an original sheet of paper so that the machine can scan some amount of the paper
at once.
AppleTalk
AppleTalk is a proprietary suite of protocols developed by Apple, Inc for computer
networking. It was included in the original Macintosh (1984) and is now deprecated
by Apple in favor of TCP/IP networking.
BIT Depth
A computer graphics term describing the number of bits used to represent the color
of a single pixel in a bitmapped image. Higher color depth gives a broader range of
distinct colors. As the number of bits increases, the number of possible colors
becomes impractically large for a color map. 1-bit color is commonly called as
monochrome or black and white.
BMP
A bitmapped graphics format used internally by the Microsoft Windows graphics
subsystem (GDI), and used commonly as a simple graphics file format on that
platform.
Glossary