{"id":160,"date":"2013-09-11T07:54:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T07:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/?p=160"},"modified":"2014-09-10T09:42:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T09:42:16","slug":"useful-copy-machine-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/useful-copy-machine-jargon\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Copy Machine Jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you are buying a copier or multifunction printer it will be easier to compare components and features if you are familiar with the terminology involved. Copiers<\/a> are complicated pieces of equipment and the complex sounding terms might confuse you before you have even begun your research. In addition to educating yourself and helping you navigate your copier decision, it may also help you complete a better deal if the sales person thinks he is speaking to a knowledgeable customer!<\/p>\n

The following are some terms that may be useful for you when discussing copier features.<\/p>\n

\u2022 ADF – Automatic Document Feeder:<\/strong> This feature allows you to feed multiple pages through the feeder for copying without having to manually pass through each page individually. The documents are placed in the feeder and each page is fed automatically into the copier machine.<\/p>\n

\u2022 DADF – Duplex Automatic Document Feeder<\/strong> \u2013 This is basically the same feature as the ADF but it can feed and read double sided documents and copy them automatically. The D\u0094 stands for duplex.<\/p>\n

\u2022 AMCV – Average Monthly Copy Volume<\/strong> – Also referred to as Average Monthly Print Volume (AMPV). This is an estimation of the use of a machine. The way this is determined is by how many copies or documents are printed monthly. Many vendors calculate total costs based on this estimate.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Clicks<\/strong> – An industry term for the number of pages printed per month. Many copier machines come with a meter that will calculate the number of copies output each month.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CMYK<\/strong> \u2013 This stands for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black (I know, the K is for Black \u2013 very confusing) which are the colors used for copying and printing.<\/p>\n

\u2022 CPM<\/strong> – Copies-per-minute \u2013 Sometimes referred to as PPM \u2013 Pages Per Minute. This is the number of prints a machine can produce in one minute. eg 45 CPM would mean, 45 pages printed in a minute.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Duty Cycle<\/strong> \u2013 this is the number of prints a machine is capable of printing in its entire \u201clife span\u201d. This will tell you the amount of time you can except your printer to last, depending of course on how heavily you use it. Don\u2019t get this confused with the Monthly Duty Cycle, which is the total recommended output for the printer in one month.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Finishing Options<\/strong> \u2013 Included in finishing options are a wide range of paper finishing features that can be performed by a copier such as collating, folding, and stapling.<\/p>\n

\u2022 RGB<\/strong> \u2013 An acronym for Red-Green-Blue, a different way of generating color which usually produces higher density colors than CMYK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you are buying a copier or multifunction printer it will be easier to compare components and features if you are familiar with the terminology involved. Copiers are complicated pieces of equipment and the complex sounding terms might confuse you before you have even begun your research. In addition to educating yourself and helping you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,7],"tags":[56,58,57,6,60,59,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copyfaxes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}