Apple 12/600PS manual Adding hard disks, Connecting a previously used hard disk

Adding hard disks

You can install an internal hard disk and attach up to six external SCSI 40 MB (or larger) hard disks to the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS. The hard disk provides space for font storage.

When you connect one or more hard disks to your printer to store fonts, documents will print faster because your computer will rarely need to download a font to the printer. You’ll also improve network performance because less information is transferred over network cables.

When you do download a font, you can choose to download it either to a hard disk or to the printer’s RAM. Downloading it to a disk stores it there permanently (or until you remove it). If you have a Macintosh, you can initialize the disks and download fonts to them by using the Apple Printer Utility program (see “Sending Fonts to the Printer” in Chapter 2). If you have an IBM PC or compatible computer, you can initialize the disks and download fonts to them by using the Font Downloader in the Printer Setup dialog box (see “Downloading Fonts” in Chapter 7).

Connecting a previously used hard disk

The Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS recognizes disks formatted for use with the Macintosh HFS format. However, the printer will not recognize disks using other formats. If you attach such a disk to the printer, you will need to reinitialize the disk before you can use it and then reload any fonts from your computer. Reinitializing erases everything, including all fonts previously stored on the disk.

Connecting external hard disks

You must use an HDI-30 SCSI System cable to connect the first external hard disk to the external SCSI port. For each additional hard disk you connect to the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS, you will need a SCSI peripheral cable, which links two SCSI devices. You’ll also need a SCSI terminator connected to the last device in the SCSI chain.

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