G-1APPENDIXGGlossaryAACAlternating current. The type of electrical current available from a wall outlet.Activity reportA journal of the machine’s fax transactions, both sent and received.Application programSoftware prepared for a specific function or set of functions. Developers who make application programsinclude drivers that support different types of printers.ASCIIAcronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A set of definitions for the bit compositionof characters and symbols. ASCII defines 128 symbols using 7 binary bits and 1 parity bit.Auto FAX/TEL switchingSee FAX/TEL switching.Automatic dialingDialing fax or telephone numbers by pressing one or three buttons. To use automatic dialing, you mustregister the numbers in the machine’s memory. See also One-Touch Speed Dialing, Coded Speed Dialing,and Group Dialing.Automatic Document Feeder (ADF)The device included in the machine that feeds the document being faxed, copied, or scanned into themachine.Automatic image reductionThe machine can print the date, time, company name, and a fax number at the top of the faxes it receives. Toprevent this information from crowding the faxed image on the page and possibly lengthening the fax, themachine automatically reduces the size of the image on the page.Automatic redialingWhen the receiving fax machine is busy or does not answer, or when an error occurs while sending, themachine waits a specified time and then automatically redials the number. If the receiving fax is still busy ordoes not answer, the machine waits the specified time and dials again. If the fax still does not go through, themachine prints an error TX report.
