| AA | Author's alteration |
| A-D | Analog to digital |
| ADB | Apple Desktop Bus |
| AFM | Adobe Font Metrics |
| AFP | AppleTalk Filing Protocol |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| APD | Aldus Printer Description file |
| ASCII | American Standard Code for Information Interchange |
| ASIC | Application-Specific Integrated Circuit |
| AT | Advanced Technology, as in PC/AT |
| ATM | Adobe Type Manager |
| BDR | Basic Density Range |
| BMP | As in BitMaPped (PC file format) |
| BNC | British National Connector |
| BPS | Bits Per Second |
| CAD/CAM | Computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing |
| CCD | Charge-Coupled Device |
| CD | Compact Disc |
| CDR | Copy Density Range |
| CD-ROM | Compact Disc Read-Only Memory |
| CEPS | Color Electronic Prepress System |
| CGA | Color Graphics Adapter |
| CGI | Computer Graphics Interface |
| CGM | Computer Graphics Metafile |
| CISC | Complex Instruction Set Computing |
| CMOS | Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (semiconductor type) |
| CMS | Color Management System |
| CMYK | Cyan, magenta, yellow, and black |
| CPU | Central processing unit |
| CRC | Cyclical Redundancy check |
| CRT | Cathode-Ray Tube |
| CT | Continuous Tone |
| CT2T | Continuous Tone to Ttape |
| DA | Desk Accessory |
| DAT | Digital Audio Tape |
| DCS | Desktop Color Separation |
| DCT | Discrete Cosine Transform |
| DDCP | Direct-Digital Color Proof |
| DDES | Digital Data Exchange Specifications |
| DHCP | Dynamic Host Control Protocol |
| DIB | Device Independent Bitmap |
| DMA | Direct Memory Access |
| DOS | Disk Operating System |
| DPI | Dots Per Inch |
| DRAM | Dynamic random-access memory |
| DSP | Digital Signal Processor |
| DTP | Desktop Publishing |
| DVD | Digital Video Disk |
| DXF | Drawing Interchange Format |
| EBCDIC | Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code |
| EDG | Electronic Dot Generation |
| EEPROM | Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (see EPROM) |
| EGA | Enhanced Graphics Adapter |
| EISA | Extended Industry Standard Architecture |
| EPROM | Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (see EEPROM) |
| EPS | Encapsulated PostScript |
| ESDI | Enhanced Small Device Interface |
| FDDI | Fiber Distributed Data Interface |
| FLOPS | Floating-Point Operations Per Second |
| FOND | Font Family Descriptor |
| FPU | Floating-point unit |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol |
| GATF | Graphic Arts Technical Foundation |
| GB | Gigabyte |
| GCR | Gray Component Replacement |
| GCR | Group Coded Recording |
| GEM | Graphics Environment Manager |
| GIF | Graphic Interchange Format-CompuServe |
| GKS | Graphical Kernel System |
| GPIB | General-Purpose Interface Bus |
| GPS | Global Positioning Systems |
| GUI | Graphical User Interface |
| H&J | Hyphenation and justification |
| HADA | High Availability Disk Array |
| HCL | Hue, Chroma, and Luminance |
| HDTV | High-Definition TeleVision |
| HGC | Hercules Graphic Card |
| HPGL | Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language |
| HSB | Hue-Saturation-Brightness |
| HIS | Hue-Intensity-Saturation |
| HLS | Hue-Lightness-Saturation |
| HSV | Hue-Saturation-Value |
| HTML | Hyper Text Markup Language |
| Hz | Hertz-frequency unit equal to one cycle per second, see also kHz, MHz |
