THE WHATIS.COM WORD-OF-THE-DAY May 24, 2002 imagesetter ______________ TODAY'S SPONSOR: The .tv Corporation
Save 30% on Web addresses! Not only will you get a great deal on your Web addresses, but you'll also get superior customer service, innovative products and services and a place that is easy to register and manage your Web addresses. Great names are still available. Register the names you want before someone else does! Check it out now: http://WhatIs.com/r/0,,3512,00.htm?the.tvcorporation ______________ TODAY'S WORD: imagesetter See our definition with hyperlinks at http://searchebusiness.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid19_gci825229,00.html An imagesetter is a high resolution output device that can transfer electronic text and graphics directly to film, plates, or photo-sensitive paper. It can be thought of as a very expensive high resolution printer and can come in many different sizes and formats. An imagesetter uses a laser and a dedicated raster image processor (RIP) and is usually Postscript-compatible to create the film used in computer-based preproduction work. Unlike the resolution on a home printer, which is probably between 300 - 600 dots per inch (dpi), the resolution on a typical imagesetter is 1270 or 2540 dpi with a maximum dpi of 4000. In process color work, an imagesetter creates the separated output by "printing" the image four times - once each in cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYB). RELATED TERMS: printer http://searchhp.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid6_gci213450,00.html laser http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci214527,00.html raster image processor http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci214294,00.html Postscript http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212814,00.html resolution http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212895,00.html dpi http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213912,00.html ______________________ SELECTED LINKS: Scott Bury writes about the future of imagesetters in "Endangered Species? The state of the imagesetter". http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/2837.html SearchEBusiness provides resources to help you prepare your desktop publishing files for professional printing. http://searchebusiness.techtarget.com/search/1,293876,sid19,00.html?query=imagesetter&ctype=ALL ______________________ QUIZ #26 | Storage Smarts Is it a petabyte, terabyte, exabyte, or megabyte? Which amount of data is the equivalent of more than 300 feature-length movies, 40,000 faxes, 15,000 CDs converted to MP3 at high fidelity, or enough words that it would take every adult in America speaking at the same time for five minutes to say them all? Find out when you take our latest quiz! http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid5_gci822242,00.html _________________________________________________________ LESS THAN 4 WEEKS UNTIL OUR FREE SECURITY DECISIONS EVENT Time's running out to attend Security Decisions June 19-21 at the Hilton Chicago Hotel. There are still seats left but you should act now or risk being shut out. FREE attendance available at: <http://www.securityconf.com/html/registration.htm> Benefit from top strategies to make the most cost-effective security purchases, expert tactics to close specific security holes in your system, and the most effective ways to manage network security (without breaking the bank). Apply today! ______________________________ RECENT ADDITIONS AND UPDATES [1] REST http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci823682,00.html [2] CamelCase http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci824384,00.html [3] appliance computing http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid26_gci823679,00.html [4] verbose logging http://searchwindowsmanageability.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid33_gci823745,00.html [5] Cartesian coordinates http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci824296,00.html ____________________________________________________________________ ::::::::::::::::::: WHATIS.COM CONTACTS ::::::::::::::::::: LOWELL THING, Site Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ____________________________________________________________________ MARGARET ROUSE, Assistant Editor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ___________________________________________________________________ :::::::::::::::::::: ABOUT THIS NEWSLETTER ::::::::::::::::::::: Created by TechTarget (http://www.techtarget.com) TechTarget - The Most Targeted IT Media Copyright 2002, All Rights Reserved. If you would like to sponsor this or any techtarget newsletter, please contact Gabrielle DeRussy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe from 'Word of the Day' - Simply Reply to this Email with REMOVE within the Body or Subject > or - Go to: http://WhatIs.techtarget.com/register - Log in to edit your profile. - Click on the link to Edit email subscriptions. - Uncheck the box next to the newsletter you wish to unsubscribe from. - When finished, click "Save Changes to My Profile."