Specifications
Parallel
Communication
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Mode
The Mode option enables or disables the parallel interface. The
default value is Enabled. If you are not using the parallel interface,
you may select Disabled to prevent any jobs from being received
through this interface.
The printer must be restarted for changes to the Mode menu to take
effect. Changing the Mode setting will cause the REBOOT NOW?
prompt to appear. You can either choose to restart the printer now
and this change takes effect immediately or you can manually restart
the printer later and have this change take effect then.
Emulation
The Emulation option selects the parallel interface's default emula-
tion. The selections are ESP, Hexdump, PostScript, PCL 5, LN03+,
ImPRESS, CCITT, Lineprinter, and HPGL. The factory default emula-
tion is ESP. This change takes effect immediately.
Min K Spool
This five-digit value sets the minimum number of kilobytes of RAM
dedicated to the Parallel interface. Do not set this value greater than
the K Mem for Spool value (Administration / Memory menu).The
range is 00000 to 99999 and the default setting is 00015. See “Dedi-
cating Memory to an Interface” in chapter 7 for information about the
Min K Spool setting.
The printer is immediately restarted when a change is made to this
option. (For example, change the value to 35, press the Enter key,
and the menu changes. Press the Line key and the printer automati-
cally reboots.)
Spool Timeout
The Spool Timeout option sets the number of seconds the parallel
interface waits for additional data from the host before terminating a
print job. The range is 00000 (no timeout) to 99999, and the default is
00030 seconds. If you change this setting, you must ensure that the










