Lexmark 912 manual Serial Menu, Using printer menus, Menu Item, Purpose, Values, Baud, Data Bits

Using printer menus

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	1200
	can be received through the serial
		2400
	port.
		4800
		9600*
		19200
		38400
		57600
		115200
		138200
		172800
		230400
		345600
Data Bits	To specify the number of data bits	7
	that are sent in each transmission
		8*
	frame.
Honor DSR	To determine whether the printer	Off*	All data received by the serial port
	uses the Data Set Ready (DSR)		is treated as valid data.
	signal. DSR is one of the
		On	Only data received while the DSR
	handshaking signals 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	Off*	Does not buffer print jobs to the
Buffering	printer hard disk before printing.		hard disk.
	Note: Changing the Job Buffering	On	Buffers print jobs to the hard disk.
	menu item automatically resets the
		Auto	Buffers print jobs only if the printer
	printer.
			is busy processing data from
			another input port.

Serial Menu

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