In telecommunication, the term reproduction speed has the following meanings:
- In facsimile systems, the rate at which recorded copy is produced. (The reproduction speed is usually expressed (a) as the area of recorded copy produced per unit time, 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.)
Famous quotes containing the words reproduction and/or speed:
“As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.”
—Stephen Bayley (b. 1951)
“There was such speed in her little body,
And such lightness in her footfall,
It is no wonder her brown study
Astonishes us all.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)