little-endian
A computer architecture that stores multiple-byte numerical values with the least significant byte (LSB) values first.

live area
The area on a page where you can safely place body copy or other important information. In most cases, important information should not extend to the edge of a page, because there is a chance that it may be cut off if the page is not cut precisely when it is printed.

load capacity
How fast and/or how much mass moves along the axis.

LPI
Abbreviation for Lines Per Inch

LPR
Abbreviation for Line Printer. Back in the dark ages of computing, this was a printer that could print one line of text at a time. Nowadays LPR usually refers to a protocol that UNIX systems use to send data to an output device. One of the disadvantages of LPR is that it is unidirectional: a computer can use LPR to send a page to a RIP but a PostScript error message or other warning cannot be send back to the computer.

LUN
Abbreviation for Logical Unit Number

LUT
Abbreviation for LookUp Table

LW
Abbreviation for LineWork

LZW
Abbreviation for Lempel, Ziv and Welch - Compression algorithm that is named after its 3 inventors.

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