Memory

nTo enable additional features

The ability to configure your printer's memory doesn’t necessarily mean that you must change your current configuration. If you’re presently using all the features you need and the printer is performing effi- ciently, you shouldn’t feel compelled to reconfigure your printer's memory. Just remember that if your printing needs change, not only do you have the ability to increase the amount of printer memory, but you also can redistribute it where you feel it would best meet your printing requirements.

QMS Memory Management

Managing the memory on your printer is much the same as managing your personal income. In money management, you have a certain amount of income and many ways of spending that income. You decide where that money goes according to what’s important to you. There’s no single correct way to manage money, but there is one best way for you according to your financial obligations. Just as long as your method works for you.

The same is true for managing the memory on your printer. There’s no single correct way for everyone to allocate available printer mem- ory. There is, however, a best way to configure your printer's memory for maximum efficiency in your specific printing environment. For example, if you use a large number of PostScript fonts of various point sizes, you may want to increase the amount of memory allocated to the area specified for PostScript fonts. Or you may want to increase memory to the area that minimizes slowdowns when collating large print jobs.

Memory configuration affects these things as well as the number of jobs that can be accepted by the printer, the number of options available simultaneously, the number of downloadable fonts and emulations that can be stored, and overall printer performance.

Memory Terms

Before you can configure your printer's memory efficiently, you must first understand the different types of memory and how they work

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