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Glossary

Glossary

A

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

C

C

A computer language

Character Set

The association of numbers with specific printed or displayed characters or symbols

E

ESC/P

EPSON Standard Code for Printers

F

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

G

GIF

Graphics Interchange Format

H

HP-GL

Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language

HP-PCL

Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language

HP-PJL

Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language

I

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force

IP

Internet Protocol

IPv4

Internet Protocol, version 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bits in length and often look like "nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn" and "127.0.0.1"

IPv6

Internet Protocol, version 6: IPv6 addresses are 128-bits in length and look like "xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx" and "::1"

IPP

Internet Printing Protocol

ISO

International Standards Organization

J

JFIF

JPEG File Interchange Format

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group

L

LPD

Line Printer Daemon

M

MIME

Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange

P

parallel

Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time

PDF

Portable Document Format

pipe

A one-way communications channel between two programs

PNG

Portable Network Graphics

PostScript

A page description language that is most often used for printing

PPD

PostScript Printer Description

S

SCSI

Small Computer Systems Interface

serial

Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time

SMB

Server Message Block

socket

A two-way network communications channel

T

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TFTP

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

U

UDP

Unicast Datagram Protocol

Unicode

A universal character set for all languages of the world

UTF-8

Unicode Transfer Format 8-Bit