bpi
Abbreviation for Bits Per Inch

bps
Abbreviation for Bits Per Second, a rate of data transfer (e.g. over the telephone lines using a modem). Sometimes confused with Baud.
brace
These are left brace left and right brace characters:

braces
Characters used to connect or embrace lines

BRI
Abbreviation for Bad Record Index: a particular brand of Hell devised by Adobe for people saucy enough to try to work in Pagemaker. When you have it, it makes almost every function unavailable to you. You know, those little things that mean so much, like saving your %$#?!&# file. Or changing a style. Or pasting from one file to the next. Or even turning pages.

brightness
- The amount of light being reflected from a surface
- In a printed reproduction, the lightness value regardless of the hue or saturation. Brightness is affected by the reflectance of the paper.
- term for reflection density

brilliance
The subjective expression of brightness

bronzing
Applying bronzing powder over a surface printed with sizing ink that is still wet, to produce a metallic effect

BSD
Abbreviation for Berkeley System Development: One of the many flavours of the Unix operating system.

BSOD
Abbreviation for Blue Screen Of Death - Blue screen that pops up when Windows NT crashes. So popular and common that it got its own acronym.

braille
A writing system using a series of 64 or 256 raised dots that are read with the fingers by people who are (nearly) blind.

buffer
- A computer memory area that is used for the temporary storage of data waiting to be processed
- A portion of computer memory that is allocated for the temporary storage of data until the CPU is clear to process it

bug
An error in programming code that causes undesirable behavior in an application. The word was first used during the fifties when programmer Grace Hopper found a moth in her computer that had caused the system to crash. When asked what she was doing, she replied ‘I am debugging the computer’. From then on bugs were accused of causing all software malfunctions. Grace Hopper also invented the first computer language, together with the compiler needed to translate the instructions into a format the computer could work with.

bullet
A dot or other character that is placed at the left of items in a list, to show that they are individual, but related points

burn
A term used for exposure in platemaking

B&W
Abbreviation for Black and White

BYGMCR
Abbreviation for BuY General Motors CaRs: a simple rule to remind you about the complimentary colours: Blue versus Yellow, Green versus Magenta and Cyan versus Red.

byte
Eight bits of stored information, or 256 discrete levels of data; the basic unit of computer memory, representing a single alphanumeric character; one byte contains the equivalent of 8 bits. In electronic publishing, each byte represents a value or a character.>

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