Lexmark 340 Parallel Menu, Understanding the operator panel, Advanced, Status, Honor Init, Values

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	To enable bidirectional communication	Off	Disables parallel port negotiation.
Status	through the parallel port.
		On*	Enables bidirectional communication
			through the parallel interface.
Honor Init	To determine whether the printer	Off*	Printer does not honor hardware
	honors hardware initialization requests		initialization requests from the
	from the computer. The computer		computer.
	requests initialization by activating the
		On	Printer honors hardware initialization
	INIT signal on the parallel interface.
	Many personal computers activate the		requests from the computer.
	INIT signal each time the computer is
	turned on and off.
MAC Binary PS	To configure the printer to process	On	Printer processes raw binary
	Macintosh binary PostScript print jobs.		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	On	Printer performs NPA processing. If
	performs the special processing		data is not in NPA format, it is rejected
	required for bidirectional		as bad data.
	communication, following the
		Off	Printer does not perform NPA
	conventions defined in the Network
	Printing Alliance (NPA) Protocol.		processing.
	Note: Changing this menu item
		Auto*	Printer examines data, determines the
	automatically resets the printer.
			format, and then processes it
			appropriately.
Parallel Buffer	To configure the size of the parallel	Disabled	Disables job buffering. Any jobs
	input buffer.		already buffered on the disk are
	Note: Changing this menu item		printed before normal processing of
			incoming jobs resumes.
	automatically resets the printer.
		Auto*	Printer automatically calculates the
			Parallel Buffer size (recommended
			setting).
		3K to maximum	User specifies the Parallel Buffer size.
		size allowed	The maximum size depends on the
			amount of memory in your printer, the
			size of the other link buffers, and
			whether Resource Save is set to On or
			Off. To maximize the range for the
			Parallel Buffer size, disable or reduce
			the size of the serial and USB buffers.

Using the printer menus

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