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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 the Job Buffering | Auto | Buffers print jobs only if the MFP is |
| menu item automatically resets the |
| busy processing data from another |
| MFP. It is reset to configure |
| input port. |
| memory, and any permanent |
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| resources, such as fonts or macros, |
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| are lost. |
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Serial Protocol | Selects the hardware and software | DTR* | Hardware handshaking. |
| handshaking values for the serial |
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| DTR/DSR | Hardware handshaking. | |
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| XON/XOFF | Software handshaking. |
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| XON/XOFF/DTR | Combined hardware and software |
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| handshaking. |
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| XONXOFF/DTRDSR | Combined hardware and software |
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| handshaking. |
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Robust XON | Determines whether the MFP | Off* | The MFP waits to receive data from |
| communicates availability to the |
| the computer. |
| computer. |
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| On | The MFP sends a continuous stream | |
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| of XONs to the host computer to | |
| serial port if Serial Protocol is set to |
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| indicate that the serial port is ready to | |
| XON/XOFF. |
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| receive more data. | |
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Baud | Specifies the rate at which data can | 1200 |
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| 2400 |
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| and 345600 baud rates appear in | 4800 |
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| the Standard Serial menu. These |
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| values do not appear in the Serial | 9600* |
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| Option 3 menus. | 19200 |
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| 38400 |
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| 57600 |
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| 115200 |
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| 138200 |
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| 172800 |
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| 230400 |
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| 345600 |
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Data Bits | Specifies the number of data bits | 7 |
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Parity | Sets the parity for serial input and | Even |
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| None* |
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| Ignore |
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