User`s guide
Jumper
A small device that connects pins on a circuit board and is used
to activate a particular function.
Line Art
An image made up of lines and solids with no grays.
Lossy
A data compression system that intentionally discards (or
loses) some data from the original image.
Midtone
The tonal value of a dot, located approximately halfway
between the highlight value and the shadow value.
Moire
An unwanted pattern that can occur when a halftone image is
scanned or when it is scaled in an application after it has been
scanned.
Path
The directory and subdirectories you specify to locate a file. For
example, the path for the TWAIN directory in Windows may
be C:\WINDOWS\TWAIN.
Pixel
Picture Element. Each image is composed of a number of
pixels. Pixels are sometimes called dots.
Pixel Depth
An EPSON TWAIN setting that lets you select the amount of
color information in a file.
Port
An interface channel through which data is transmitted
between devices.
Resolution
Indication of how finely an image is resolved into pixels.
Measured in dots per inch (dpi), pixels per inch (ppi), or
sometimes samples per inch (spi).
RLE Compression
Run-Length Encoding. A type of data compression.
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