Epson Stylus Pro 4000 Field Repair Manual page 203

Stylus Pro 4000 Field Repair Guide
Drop of Ink:
Dye Ink:
Electronic Alignments:
Error Diffusion:
Flight Time:
Gamut:
Ghosting:
Gradient:
Grainy:
Head Angular Adjustment:
Glossary
Ink that appears to have dripped from the print head, or any other component of the
ink supply.
Ink that colors the printed surface with dye. It is less durable than pigment ink, but
has a wider color range (gamut).
Printer adjustments, which are performed using software routines that, allow the
printer to compensate for physical variations in its mechanism.
The type of dithering (screening) proprietary to Epson, that employs a random dot
pattern to ensure that the human eye can discern no pattern.
The time it takes a drop of ink to travel from the print head to the printable surface.
The range of colors that a printer can produce.
A term that refers to components of an image that are intended to be on top of each
other (or adjacent), but are offset.
A smooth transition between one color shade, and the next. A continuous tone image
requires a smooth gradient for all its tonal shifts.
A breakdown of the "illusion of continuous tone". A printed image that does not have
smooth tonal transition, and sharp detail.
A term that refers to a mechanical print head alignment that ensures that an ink jet's print heads
nozzles are on the same vertical plane. (Also known as the B head slant or the C head slant.) The
head is rotated until it is vertically linear.
Printer Component, Software Item, LCD Display, Printer Button
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