Technical information

16 Will you be printing at 300x300 dpi or 600x600 dpi?
After you have answered all of these questions, read the following
sections to see which memory clients control the features you plan to
use and which memory clients control features you don’t need.
Memory clients are blocks of printer memory that are dedicated to a
specific purpose. Each of the memory clients is located in the Admin-
istration/Memory menu. When you allocate memory to a specific cli-
ent through the control panel, it’s allocated in kilobytes (KB). Each
time you make changes in the Administration/Memory menu, print out
a status page to confirm the memory reallocation.
» Note:
The value for each memory client must be divisible by 4 KB.
Therefore, if a value is entered that is not evenly divisible by 4 KB, it’s
automatically converted to the next lower value that’s divisible by 4
KB. See the “Printer Memory” section of chapter 4, “Printer
Configuration,” for each memory client’s minimum and default
settings.
The Framebuffer memory client holds rasterized or bitmapped
images of page faces which are ready to be sent to the physical print
engine. Any task that affects the page faces—such as increasing
paper size or printing at a higher resolution—may require increasing
the amount of memory allocated to this client to boost print speed and
overall system throughput.
A frame holds the contents of a single page image. Because the
frame buffer memory is so critical to the actual printing of a page, its
allocation takes precedence over that of other memory clients. There-
fore, you cannot set the frame buffer to an amount smaller than that
required to image a page of the selected size.
The number of frames needed to print at engine speed depends on
what paper size you are using, and at what resolution. For example,
printing at 600x600 dpi requires four times the amount of memory in
the frame buffer than does 300x300 dpi.