M3099EX/EH OEM Manual GL-1
GLOSSARY OF
TERMS
Glossary of Terms
A4 size
A standard paper size used in Japan and other countries. Paper is
210 x 297 mm (8.25 x 11.6 inches).
ASCII
The acronym for American Standard Code for Information
Interchange. ASCII is a set of 256 codes (numbered 0 to 255) used
to communicate information between a computer and another device
such as a scanner.
Automatic separation
The image processing method to detect the difference between text
and photos and choose the thresholding accordingly. Automatic
separation allows the scanner to switch between line mode and half
tone mode in one pass.
Automatic start mode
A mode that the scanner starts to read by the command from the
host machine.
Bit
The smallest unit of information in computer memory. A bit is a
single digit, either a 1 or a 0, in the binary numbering system. Eight
bits equal one byte.
Dither
Technique for producing halftone images representing the entire
grayscale using two pixel levels black and white.
dpi
Dots per inch.