Using printer menus
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.
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Advanced | To enable bidirectional | Off | Disables parallel port negotiation. | |
Status | communication through the |
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On* | Enables bidirectional | |||
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Honor Init | To determine whether the printer | Off* | Printer does not honor hardware | |
| honors hardware initialization |
| initialization requests from the | |
| requests from the computer. The |
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| computer requests initialization by |
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| On | Printer honors hardware | ||
| activating the INIT signal on the | |||
| parallel interface. Many personal |
| initialization requests from the | |
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Job | To temporarily store jobs on the | Off* | Does not buffer print jobs to the | |
Buffering | printer hard disk before printing. |
| hard disk. | |
| Note: Changing this menu item | On | Buffers print jobs to the hard disk. | |
| automatically resets the printer. | |||
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| Auto | Buffers print jobs only if the printer | ||
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MAC Binary | To configure the printer to process | On | Printer processes raw binary | |
PS | Macintosh binary PostScript print |
| PostScript print jobs from | |
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| computers using the Macintosh | |
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| Windows print jobs to fail. | |
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| Off | Printer filters PostScript print jobs | |
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| Auto* | Printer processes print jobs from | |
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| computers using either Windows | |
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NPA Mode | To specify whether the printer | On | Printer performs NPA processing. | |
| performs the special processing |
| If data is not in NPA format, it is | |
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| rejected as bad data. | |
| communication, following the |
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| Off | Printer does not perform NPA | ||
| conventions defined in the | |||
| Network Printing Alliance (NPA) |
| processing. | |
| Protocol. |
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| Auto* | Printer examines data and | ||
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| automatically resets the printer. |
| processes it appropriately. | |
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