Acronyms and Abbreviations
ac
alternating current
ADB
Apple Desktop Bus
AIX
Advanced Interactive Executive
ANSI
American National Standards Institute
APC
automatic photoemission control
C
centigrade
CCITT
Comité Consultatif International
Télégraphique et Téléphonique
CCW
channel command word
CD-ROM
compact disk read-only memory
CE
customer engineer
CPU
central processing unit
CRC
cyclical redundancy check
CRD
color-rendering dictionary
CRT
cathode-ray tube
CRU
customer replaceable unit
dB
decibel
dc
direct current
DEV
developer
dpi
dots per inch
DRAM
dynamic random access memory
DTP
desktop publishing
EBCDIC
extended binary-coded decimal
interchange code
EC
engineering change
EEPROM
electronically erasable programmable
read-only memory
EPROM
erasable programmable read-only
memory
ERP
error recovery procedure
F
Fahrenheit
FIFO
first in first out
FM
fan
FRU
field-replaceable unit
GDI
graphics device interface
GND
ground
GUI
graphical user interface
H
fuser heater
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Copyright IBM Corp. 1996
HVT
high-voltage transformer
Hz
herz
IC
integrated circuit
I/O
input/output
ipm
impressions per minute
IPX
Internet package exchange
IPX/SPX
Internet packet exchange/sequenced
packet exchange
ISO
International Organization for
Standardization
JIS
Japanese Industry Standard
K
kilo
KB
kilobyte
kg
kilogram
laser
light amplification by stimulated
emission of radiation
LED
light-emitting diode
LGL
legal
lpi
lines per inch
LPR
local printer
LPT
local port
MB
megabyte
mm
millimeter
OHP
overhead projection
OPC
organic photoconductor
PC
personal computer, photoconductor
PCB
printed circuit board
PDF
printer description file
PEL
pixel
pixel
picture element
POST
power-on self-test
ppi
pixels per inch
ppm
pages per minute
RAM
random access memory
RH
relative humidity
RIP
raster-image processor
RISC
reduced instruction set computer
ROM
read-only memory
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