Using the printer menus
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Understanding the operator panel
Parallel Menu
Use the Parallel Menu to change printer settings affecting jobs sent to the printer through a parallel
port (either Std Parallel or Parallel Opt<x>).
Note: Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings.
Menu item Purpose Values
Advanced
Status To enable bidirectional
communication through the
parallel port.
Off Disables parallel port negotiation.
On* Enables bidirectional
communication through the
parallel interface.
Honor Init To determine whether the printer
honors hardware initialization
requests from the computer. The
computer requests initialization by
activating the INIT signal on the
parallel interface. Many personal
computers activate the INIT signal
each time the computer is turned
on and off.
Off* Printer does not honor hardware
initialization requests from the
computer.
On Printer honors hardware
initialization requests from the
computer.
MAC Binary
PS To configure the printer to process
Macintosh binary PostScript print
jobs.
On Printer processes raw binary
PostScript print jobs from
computers using the Macintosh
operating system.
Note: This setting often causes
Windows print jobs to fail.
Off Printer filters PostScript print jobs
using standard protocol.
Auto* Printer processes print jobs from
computers using either Windows
or Macintosh operating systems.
NPA Mode To specify whether the printer
performs the special processing
required for bidirectional
communication, following the
conventions defined in the
Network Printing Alliance (NPA)
Protocol.
Note: Changing this menu item
automatically resets the printer.
On Printer performs NPA processing.
If data is not in NPA format, it is
rejected as bad data.
Off Printer does not perform NPA
processing.
Auto* Printer examines data and
determines the format and then
processes it appropriately.