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.

 

 

requests from the computer.

 

Many personal computers activate the

 

 

 

 

 

INIT signal each time the computer is

 

 

 

turned on and off.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Job

To temporarily store jobs on the printer

Off*

Does not buffer print jobs to the hard

Buffering

hard disk before printing.

 

disk.

 

Note: Changing this menu item

On

Buffers print jobs to the hard disk.

 

automatically resets the printer.

 

 

 

 

Auto

Buffers print jobs only if the printer is

 

 

 

 

 

busy processing data from another

 

 

 

input port.

 

 

 

 

MAC Binary

To configure the printer to process

On

Printer processes raw binary

PS

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

 

 

processing.

 

Printing Alliance (NPA) Protocol.

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Changing this menu item

Auto*

Printer examines data and determines

 

automatically resets the printer.

 

the format and then processes it

 

 

 

appropriately.

 

 

 

 

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Lexmark 762 manual Parallel Menu, Advanced, Status, Honor Init

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