Operating the printer
Working with the printer settings
You view and change the printer settings using the printer's Setup mode.
Table
Table 3-1. Printer settings
setting | options | description | factory |
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| default |
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Mode (set- | PostScript and Raster | Specifies which mode the printer is operat- | Postscript |
ting avail- |
| ing in. |
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able ONLY |
| WARNING: When an external hard drive |
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if the print- |
| is connected to a computer, you MUST |
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er can op- |
| disconnect the SCSI cable before |
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erate in |
| switching from raster to PostScript |
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both |
| mode. Otherwise, the hard drive may be |
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modes) |
| damaged. |
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Port | Mode - Normal and | Determines whether the parallel port will ac- | Normal |
(Parallel) | Binary | cept data in normal PostScript or Adobe bi- |
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| nary mode. In normal mode, only printable |
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| characters are accepted; characters in high |
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| ASCII range |
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| Binary mode support high ASCII range; full |
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Port | Version 2 and Version 1 | Determines whether Version 1 or Version 2 | Version 2 |
(Ethertalk) |
| of AppleTalk will be supported. |
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Port | 802.2, 802.3, SNAP, | Specifies the framing type the printer should | AUTO- |
(IPX) | ETHERNET 2, | expect. | SELECT |
| AUTOSELECT |
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Port | fill in IP Address in follow- | Sets up the Internet address of the printer | no default |
(TCP/IP) | ing format: | within a TCP/IP network. |
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| nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn |
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October 1997 |
