Lexmark 912 USB Menu, Using printer menus, Menu Item, Purpose, Values, Buffering, MAC Binary

Using printer menus

USB Menu

Use the USB Menu to change printer settings affecting a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port (USB Option <x>).

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

Menu Item	Purpose	Values
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.
MAC Binary	To configure the printer to process	Off	Printer processes raw binary
PS	Macintosh binary PostScript print		PostScript print jobs from
	jobs.		computers using the Macintosh
			operating system.
			Note: This setting often causes
			Windows print jobs to fail.
		On	Printer filters PostScript print jobs
			using standard protocol.
		Auto*	Printer processes print jobs from
			computers using either Windows
			or Macintosh operating systems.
NPA Mode	To specify whether the printer	Off	Printer performs NPA processing.
	performs the special processing		If data is not in NPA format, it is
	required for bidirectional		rejected as bad data.
	communication, following the
		On	Printer does not perform NPA
	conventions defined in the
	Network Printing Alliance (NPA)		processing.
	Protocol.
		Auto*	Printer examines the data to
	Note: Changing this menu item
			determine the format and then
	automatically resets the printer.		processes it appropriately.
PCL	To configure the printer so it	On*	Printer examines the data on the
SmartSwitch	automatically switches to		USB interface and selects
	PCL emulation when a print job		PCL emulation if the data indicates
	received through the USB port		that is the required printer
	requires it, regardless of the		language.
	default printer language.
		Off	Printer does not examine the
			incoming data. The printer uses
			PostScript emulation to process
			the job if PS SmartSwitch is On, or
			uses the default printer language
			specified in the Setup Menu if PS
			SmartSwitch is Off.

USB Menu

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