6 Appendix6-8 im7520/im6020Appendix Chapter 66.3 GlossaryTerm Definition10Base-T/100Base-TX/1000Base-TAn Ethernet standard, which is a cable consisting of twisted copperwire pairs. The transmission speed of 10Base-T is 10 Mbps, of100Base-TX is 100 Mbps, and of 1000Base-T is 1000 Mbps.Active Directory A service that manages all information such as hardware resourcesfor servers, clients, and printers on a network supported by Micro-soft and the attributes and access permissions of the usersanonymous FTP While normal FTP sites are protected by an account name and pass-word, this type of FTP site can be used by anyone without a pass-word by simply entering “anonymous” as the account name.APOP Abbreviation for Authenticated Post Office Protocol. An authentica-tion method with encrypted passwords, which results in increasedsafety, as compared to the usual unencrypted passwords used byPOP to retrieve e-mail messagesAppleTalk A generic name for the protocol suite developed by Apple Computerfor computer networkingAuto IP A function for automatically acquiring the IP address. If acquisitionof the IP address failed with DHCP, an IP address is acquired fromthe address space of 169.254.0.0.bit Abbreviation for Binary Digit. The smallest unit of information (dataquantity) on a computer or printer. Displays data using 0 or 1.BMP Abbreviation for Bitmap. A file format for saving image data whichuses the .bmp extension. Commonly used on Windows platforms.You can specify the color depth from monochrome (2 values) to fullcolor (16,777,216 colors). Images are not usually compressed whensaved.Bonjour Macintosh network technology for automatically detecting devicesconnected to the network and for specifying settings. Previouslycalled “Rendezvous”, the name was changed to “Bonjour” startingwith Mac OS X v10.4.Byte Unit of information (data quantity) on a computer or printer. Config-ured as 1 byte equals 8 bits.Client A computer that uses the services provided by a server through anetworkCompact PDF Compression method for reducing the data amount using the PDFformat when converting color documents to data.The highest compression efficiency is achieved by identifying thetext and image regions and using the resolution and compressionmethod most appropriate for each region.The compact PDF format can be selected when converting docu-ments to data using the scanning functions of this machine.Contrast The difference in intensity between the light and dark parts of the im-age (light/dark variation). An image with little light/dark variation issaid to have a low contrast, and an image with large light/dark vari-ation is said to have a high contrast.CSV Abbreviation for Comma Separated Values. One of the formats forsaving database or spreadsheet data as a text file. (The file extensionis “.csv”.) The data, which is separated by commas (as the delimiter),can be shared by different applications.
