FARGO electronic HDP5000 - Manual (Page 384)

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HDP5000 High Definition Card Printer/Encoder User Guide (Rev. 1.4) 17-9
Glossary of Terms (continued)
Term Definition
Full bleed Printing that covers the entire card surface.
Gamma The degree of contrast of an image or the display of a monitor
determined by the slope of a characteristic curve relating optical
density to relative log exposure.
Glossy / Matte A smooth polished surface in comparison to a rougher matte
surface. Fargo matte cards have a surface index (Ra) of
approximately 65 microinches while glossy have a Ra = 3.
Glossy PVC A card made of PVC with a smooth polished surface (Surface
roughness of approximately 0 - 10 micro-inches). This is
required for direct to card Dye-Sublimation printing.
Graphical Device
Interface (GDI) A Windows standard for protocol between Drivers and
applications and the Windows interface. An application uses a
Driver to rasterize the data in the format necessary for the
Printer but also for the Windows interface to execute the print
commands.
Gray Scale A graduation through the various brightness levels from white to
black.
Halftoning A process in monochrome printing that simulates continuous
tone by using changes to the distribution of single dots.
Increasing the number of dots in a given area increases the
darkness even though the individual dots stay the same size.
Hard Drive A high capacity storage device in a PC consisting of non-
removable magnetically encodable platters.
Hardware Physical components of a system such as the Printer, the PC,
the power supply.
HDP (High Definition
Printing™) The High-Definition Printing process prints full-color images
onto clear HDP transfer film (InTM). The HDP film is then fused
to the card through heat and pressure via a heated Roller. The
Printhead is capable of 256 shades with a sharper print and
better color match.
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