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Glossary-3 C4705-90000
drive roller Platen roller.
drive-roller gear Helical gear at right-hand
side of drive roller.
driver 1. An electronic circuit that provides
input to another electronic circuit, (from
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, 
Merriam-Webster 1991).
2. Configuration data used by software to control
input and output between the computer and the
plotter.
DTR Data Terminal Ready.
duty cycle The amount of use a plotter should
withstand without undue maintenance.
E/A0-size plotters Models C3191A and
C4695A.
ECP Extended Capability Port. (A Bi-Tronics
operating mode.)
EEROM Electrically Erasable Read-Only
Memory.
electronics module The equivalent of the
electronics enclosure of previous models in the
DesignJet series. However, the electronics
module is orderable as one part: you should not
open it.
EPROM Erasable Programmable Read-Only
Memory.
ESD Electrostatic discharge.
F Degree(s) Fahrenheit.
film A type of media.
flow mode The plotting of images that have
already been rasterized by computer software and
do not need to be rasterized by the plotter itself.
ft foot/feet
halftoning The placement of dots to create a
visual effect of different colors or different shades
of gray.
helical gear Right-hand drive-roller gear.
HP Hewlett-Packard.
HP-GL Precursor of HP-GL/2.
HP-GL/2 Hewlett-Packard’s standard graphics
language for its plotters.
HP-RTL Hewlett-Packard Raster Transfer
Language.
Hz Hertz.
IC Integrated Circuit.
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers.
in Inch(es).
I/O Input/Output
IPA Isopropilic alcohol.
ips Inch(es) per second.
K Kilobyte(s)
Kana-8 A Japanese character set.
Kanji A Japanese character set.
Kbyte Kilobyte
kg Kilogram(s).
Kg Kilogram(s).