Technical information

Adding a hard disk
You can attach one external SCSI hard disk to the printer. The hard disk
provides space for font storage.
When you connect a disk to your printer to store fonts, documents will print
faster because your computer will rarely need to download a font to the
printer. You’ll also improve network performance because less information is
transferred over network cables.
When you do download fonts, you can choose to download them either to a
hard disk or to the printer’s RAM. Downloading them to a disk stores them
there permanently (or until you remove them). If you have a Mac OS–based
computer, you can initialize the disk and download fonts to it by using the
Apple Printer Utility (see “Downloading Fonts to the Printer or an Attached
Hard Disk” in Appendix A). If you have an IBM PC or compatible computer,
you can initialize the disk and download fonts to it by using the Font
Downloader in the Printer Setup dialog box (see “Downloading Fonts”
in Chapter 7).
You must use a SCSI system cable to connect the first external hard disk to
the external SCSI port. For each additional hard disk you connect to the
printer, you need a SCSI peripheral cable, which links two SCSI devices.
Yo u ’ ll also need a SCSI terminator connected to the last device in the SCSI
chain (if it doesn’t have an internal terminator).
IMPORTANT The external hard disk you connect to the printer must supply
5 volts DC termination power to the SCSI bus to work properly. Check the
documentation that came with the hard disk for information about SCSI
voltage.
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