Serial Menu

Use the Serial Menu to change printer settings affecting jobs sent to the printer through a serial port (either Standard Serial or Serial Opt <x>).

Note: Values marked with an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings.

Menu Item

Purpose

Values

 

Baud

To specify the rate at which data can

1200

 

 

be received through the serial port.

 

 

 

2400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4800

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9600*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

38400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

57600

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

115200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

138200

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

172800

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

230400

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

345600

 

 

 

 

 

Data Bits

To specify the number of data bits that

7

 

 

are sent in each transmission frame.

 

 

 

8*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Honor DSR

To determine whether the printer uses

Off*

All data received by the serial port is

 

the Data Set Ready (DSR) signal.

 

treated as valid data.

 

DSR is one of the handshaking signals

 

 

 

On

Only data received while the DSR

 

for most serial interface cables.

 

 

signal is high is treated as valid.

 

The serial interface uses DSR to

 

 

 

 

 

distinguish data sent by the computer

 

 

 

from data created by electrical noise in

 

 

 

the serial cable. This electrical noise

 

 

 

can cause stray characters to print.

 

 

 

Select On to prevent stray characters

 

 

 

from printing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 the Job Buffering

On

Buffers print jobs to the hard disk.

 

menu item automatically resets the

 

 

 

 

Auto

 

 

printer.

Buffers print jobs only if the printer is

 

 

 

busy processing data from another

 

 

 

input port.

 

 

 

 

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Lexmark 762 manual Serial Menu, Baud, Data Bits, Honor DSR, 1200

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