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Chapter 4 Host Interface Menu
Trickle Time
When the printer is printing data from a host and a seco nd job is received by
the printer from a different host, Trickle Time prevents the second host from
timing out while it is waiting for its data to be printed. In order to supp ort this
feature, the port has to be able to accept data from the host and stor e it for
future use.
For example, if the printer is printing a job from the se rial port and then
receives a second print job from the parallel port, the data from th e parallel
port will “trickle” bit by bit into the printer buffer to prevent a timeout error from
being sent back to the host connected to the parallel port.
The selected value is the time that the printer waits before getting th e next
byte of data from the host. The Trickle Time value should be less than the
host time out value, but not too much shorter or else the pr inter fills up its
buffer too fast.
Timeout
This is the value used by the printer to time out from the current port and
check the other selected Port Types for data to print. When the printer has not
received data from the host after a certain period of time, it needs to Timeout
in order to service the other ports.
Report Status
•Disable. When a fault occurs on the printer, only the active port reports
the fault to the host.
•Enable. The port will report any fault even when it is no t the current active
port.