End Job Mode
Therefore, unless a wait timeout (the amount of time the printer is waiting on data from the host) occurs and ends each print job, or unless you add an EOD command between each file being printed through these protocols, some print jobs may be interpreted by the printer as one job and may “run” together. See chapter 4, “Printer Configuration,” for more information on emulation timeout.
When printing multiple jobs with little or no time delay and with no EOD command between each job, the serial and parallel protocols may be unable to detect an end of job automatically. So the End Job Mode feature on the QMS 4060 printer was designed to allow you to set the end of document for print jobs being sent through these proto- cols.
Common Reasons to Use End Job Mode
If you are printing via the serial and parallel protocols, and one of the following conditions exists, you may need to set the end job mode:
nMultiple print jobs with little or no time delay and with no EOD commands have been sent to the printer and the message win- dow displays only one active job.
nMultiple print jobs of the same printer language have been sent to the printer and they print on the same page. (For example, you send the AUTOEXEC.BAT file with no EOD command followed with little or no time delay by the CONFIG.SYS file, and they both print on the same page.)
nMultiple print jobs of different printer languages “run” together as if they are a single print job. (For example, you send a PCL print job followed by a PostScript print job, and the PCL job prints and is followed by what appears to be program code instead of your PostScript print job.)
nYou want to print multiple jobs with header pages.
nYou want to print multiple jobs where job separation is important.
When your printer is in ESP mode, printing multiple jobs through the serial and parallel protocols and end job mode is not set, ESP technology interprets the emulation for only the first job. The print jobs that
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