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Using the Hard Drive/ Downloading Fonts
5-2 ❖ LN17 and LN17ps Printers User Guide
Hard Drive
Considerations
If you install the optional hard drive on the LN17 printer, it
will significantly increase the amount of memory available for
processing jobs and storing downloaded information (such as
fonts and macros).
Print/Disk
Spooling
The hard drive can function as a print spooler when you set
the Disk Spooling option to On. With disk spooling
enabled, the hard drive simultaneously accepts print jobs
from all enabled ports, then processes and prints them in the
order in which they are first received.
Disk spooling is useful for both standalone and networked
systems:
• When the printer is busy processing a long or complex
print job, successive print jobs from the same or other
ports can be accepted by the printer and spooled to the
hard disk. Accordingly, the printer will free the computer
that is submitting print jobs so it can subsequently switch
to tasks other than printing.
• While most networks provide spooling outside the printer,
spooling to a disk inside the printer will remove network
related overhead. Accepting print jobs from a disk in the
printer is more efficient than accepting print jobs one at a
time from networks.
The number of jobs that can be spooled is limited by the
amount of hard drive space available. Also, spooling from
networks will not be supported for AppleTalk jobs and from
ports where DS/P (Document Services for Printing) is
enabled. The DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) for OpenVMS
software does not support spooling.
State Saving
When the State Saving option is set to On, the printer
saves downloaded information when it switches between the
PCL and PostScript PDLs (Printer Description Language).
Installing a hard drive increases the amount of memory the
printer has available for saving downloaded fonts and macros
when it switches between PDLs.
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