Lexmark 912 Using printer menus, Serial Menu, Menu Item, Purpose, Values, SmartSwitch, Robust XON

Using printer menus

Menu Item	Purpose	Values
PS	To configure the printer so it	On*	Printer examines data on the serial
SmartSwitch	automatically switches to		interface and selects PostScript
	PostScript emulation when a print		emulation if the data indicates that
	job received through the serial port		is the required printer language.
	requires it, regardless of the
		Off	Printer does not examine the
	default printer language.
			incoming data. The printer uses
			PCL emulation to process the job if
			PCL SmartSwitch is On, or uses
			the default printer language
			specified in the Setup Menu if PCL
			SmartSwitch is Off.
Robust XON	To determine whether the printer	Off*	Printer waits to receive data from
	communicates availability to the		the computer.
	computer.
		On	Printer sends a continuous stream
	This menu item only applies to the
			of XONs to the host computer to
	serial port if Serial Protocol is set
			indicate that the serial port is ready
	to XON/XOFF.
			to receive more data.
Serial Buffer	To configure the size of the serial	Disabled	Disables job buffering. Any jobs
	input buffer.		already buffered on the disk are
	Note: Changing the Serial Buffer		printed before normal processing
			of incoming jobs resumes.
	menu item automatically resets the
	printer.	Auto*	Printer automatically calculates the
			Serial Buffer size (recommended
			setting).
		3K to	User specifies the Serial Buffer
		maximum	size. The maximum size depends
		size allowed	on the amount of memory in your
			printer, the size of the other link
			buffers, and whether Resource
			Save is set to On or Off. To
			maximize the range for the Serial
			Buffer size, disable or reduce the
			size of the parallel, and USB
			buffers.
Serial	To select the hardware and	DTR*	Hardware handshaking.
Protocol	software handshaking values for
		DTR/DSR	Hardware handshaking.
	the serial interface.
		XON/XOFF	Software handshaking.
		XON/XOFF/	Combined hardware and software
		DTR	handshaking.
		XONXOFF/	Combined hardware and software
		DTRDSR	handshaking.

Serial Menu

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