Oki ES3640E User Manual
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ES3640e MFP EFI Job Management Guide - 15
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Printer Control Language (PCL)
—A computer language designed
as a page description language. The Fiery also uses this
language to image the page, and communicate with
applications.
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Job
—A file consisting of PostScript or PCL commands and
comments that describe the graphics, sampled images, and text
that should appear on each page of a document, and the printer
options that should be used in printing, such as media
or finishing options.
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Spool
—Write to a disk. Used in this manual to refer to a
PostScript or PCL print job saved to the Fiery hard disk drive in
preparation for processing and printing.
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RIP
—Acronym for raster image processing, which changes
PostScript or PCL commands into descriptions of each mark on a
page. In common use as a noun, a “raster image processor”
(RIP) is the computer processor that performs this function.
The Fiery RIP changes text and graphics commands in
PostScript or PCL into specifications for each dot of toner
deposited on a page by the printer.
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Process
—The term “process” is used interchangeably with the
term “RIP” in this manual to refer to raster image processing.
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—The task of rendering, or imaging, a page or job on a
print device.
These concepts explain how the Fiery works as a powerful printing
system.