Using the MFP menus
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Job Buffering | This menu item only appears when | Off* | Does not buffer print jobs to the hard | |
| a formatted hard disk is installed. |
| disk. | |
| Temporarily stores jobs on the MFP |
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| On | Buffers print jobs to the hard disk. | ||
| hard disk before printing. | |||
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| Note: Changing this menu item | Auto | Buffers print jobs only if the MFP is | |
| automatically resets the MFP. It is |
| busy processing data from another | |
| reset to configure memory, and any |
| input port. | |
| permanent resources, such as fonts |
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Advanced Status | Enables bidirectional | Off | Disables parallel port negotiation. | |
| communication through the parallel |
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| On* | Enables bidirectional communication | ||
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Protocol | Specifies the parallel interface | Standard | May resolve some parallel interface | |
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| problems. | |
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| Fastbytes* | Provides compatibility with most | |
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Honor Init | Determines whether the MFP | Off* | The MFP does not honor hardware | |
| honors hardware initialization |
| initialization requests from the | |
| requests from the computer. The |
| computer. | |
| computer requests initialization by |
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| On | The MFP honors hardware | ||
| activating the INIT signal on the | |||
| parallel interface. Many personal |
| initialization requests from the | |
| computers activate the INIT signal |
| computer. | |
| each time the computer is turned on |
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Parallel Mode 2 | Determines whether the parallel port | On* | Samples parallel port data on the | |
| data is sampled on the leading or |
| leading edge of strobe. | |
| trailing edge of strobe. |
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| Off | Samples parallel port data on the | ||
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| trailing edge of strobe. | ||
| the associated parallel port supports |
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Mac Binary PS | Configures the MFP to process | On | The MFP processes raw binary | |
| Macintosh binary PostScript print |
| PostScript print jobs from computers | |
| jobs. |
| using the Macintosh operating system. | |
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| Note: This setting often causes | |
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| Windows print jobs to fail. | |
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| Off | The MFP filters PostScript print jobs | |
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| Auto* | The MFP processes print jobs from | |
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ENA Address | Sets the parallel port ENA Address. | 4 field IP address | Shown only if an ENA is attached | |
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| (0.0.0.0*) | through a parallel port. | |
ENA Netmask | Sets the parallel port ENA Netmask. | |||
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ENA Gateway | Sets the parallel port ENA Gateway. |
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