Reproduction speed
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In telecommunication
, the term reproduction speed has the following meanings:
Telecommunication
Telecommunication is the transmission of information over significant distances to communicate. In earlier times, telecommunications involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages via coded...
, the term reproduction speed has the following meanings:
- In facsimileFaxFax , sometimes called telecopying, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material , normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device...
systems, the rate at which recorded copyCopyingCopying is the duplication of information or an artifact based only on an instance of that information or artifact, and not using the process that originally generated it. With analog forms of information, copying is only possible to a limited degree of accuracy, which depends on the quality of the...
is produced. (The reproduction speed is usually expressed (a) as the area of recorded copy produced per unit timeTimeTime is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....
, such as square meters per second or (b) as the number of pages per minute.) - In duplicating equipment, the rate at which copies are made. (The reproduction speed is usually expressed in pages per minute.)