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.
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Baud | To specify the rate at which data | 1200 |
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| 2400 |
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| 4800 |
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| 9600* |
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| 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 | To specify the number of data bits | 7 |
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| 8* |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| distinguish data sent by the |
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| computer from data created by |
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| electrical noise in the serial cable. |
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| This electrical noise can cause |
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| stray characters to print. Select On |
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| to prevent stray characters from |
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| printing. |
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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 the Job Buffering | On | Buffers print jobs to the hard disk. |
| menu item automatically resets the | ||
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| Auto | Buffers print jobs only if the printer | |
| printer. | ||
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| is busy processing data from |
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| another input port. |
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Serial Menu
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