Interfaces

Choices Normal—Enable standard, ASCII hex protocol. Data is sent and received in ASCII format. This mode is recommended if you do not print binary data. It was designed for data in the printable ASCII range. Print jobs can alter the PS protocol value through PostScript operators.

Normal Fixed—Enable standard, ASCII hex protocol. Pr int jobs cannot alter this value through PostScript operators.

Binary—Enable binary communications protocol. Print jobs can alter this value through PostScript operators. Data in the printable ASCII range also prints.

Binary Fixed—Enable binary communications protocol. Print jobs can not alter this value through PostScript operators. Data in the printable ASCII range also prints.

Default Normal

Setting Parallel Interface Parameters

Use the Administration/Communications/Parallel menu to set the parallel interface values used for printer-host communications.

Data Bits

Sets the number of data bits transmitted per character.

Menu

Administration/Communications/Parallel/Data Bits

 

 

 

Choices

7

Bits, 8 Bits

 

 

 

Default

8

Bits

 

 

 

Default Job Priority

Allows you to specify which jobs are printed first, according to the interface through which they are received, when jobs are received simultaneously. In other words, you can give jobs received via the parallel interface priority over jobs received via the LocalTalk and serial interfaces.

Menu

Administration/Communications/Parallel/Def Job Prio

Choices 001-100 (highest-lowest priority)

Printer Configuration

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