Glossary
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- C
- A computer language
- Character Set
- The association of numbers with specific printed or
displayed characters or symbols
- ESC/P
- EPSON Standard Code for Printers
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- GIF
- Graphics Interchange Format
- HP-PCL
- Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
- HP-PJL
- Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
- 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
- JFIF
- JPEG File Interchange Format
- JPEG
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- LPD
- Line Printer Daemon
- MIME
- Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
- 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
- PWG
- Printer Working Group
- serial
- Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time
- SMB
- Server Message Block
- socket
- A two-way network communications channel
- TCP
- Transmission Control Protocol
- TFTP
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol
- TIFF
- Tagged Image File Format
- UDP
- Unicast Datagram Protocol
- Unicode
- A universal character set for all languages of the
world
- UTF-8
- Unicode Transfer Format 8-Bit