User's Manual

GL-4
User's Manual
GLOSSARY OF TERMS
A standard paper size used in the United States and other countries.
Paper is 8-1/2 ¥ 11 inches (215.9 ¥ 279.4 mm).
A signal to the printer that advances the paper forward one line. Line
feeds can be executed either by your software or by pressing the LF/
FF button on the printer control panel.
The vertical spacing between lines, measured in lines per inch.
Lines per inch. Used to measure line spacing.
Character spacing in which each printed character has the same width.
Also called fixed pitch, monospacing is the opposite of proportional
spacing. Typewriter or computer-printed text is typically
monospaced.
Fonts not present (resident) in the printer’s permanent memory. Soft
fonts and fonts on font cards are examples of nonresident fonts.
One of the printer’s two operating modes. In normal mode, the
control panel can be used to perform everyday printer operations,
such as loading and unloading paper, feeding paper, and selecting
print features. See also Setup mode.
When the printer is offline, it receives commands from the printer
control panel rather than from the computer. “Offline” indicates that
the printer is not “online” with the computer.
When the printer is online, it is ready to receive or is receiving
commands from the computer. The printer must be online to print.
A standard computer interface. Information is transferred between
devices over separate wires, allowing all of the bits that make up the
character to be transmitted simultaneously (in parallel).
The position in which continuous forms paper is retracted or “parked”
on the rear forms tractors. When continuous forms paper is loaded, it
moves forward from the park position to the platen.
Letter size
Line feed (LF)
Line spacing
lpi
Monospacing
Nonresident font
Normal mode
Offline
Online
Parallel interface
Park position