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Parallel Menu
Use the Parallel Menu to change printer settings affecting jobs sent to the printer through a parallel port
(either Std Parallel or Parallel Opt <x>).
Note: Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings.
Menu Item Purpose Values
Advanced
Status
To enable bidirectional communication
through the parallel port.
Off Disables parallel port negotiation.
On* Enables bidirectional communication
through the parallel interface.
Honor Init
To determine whether the printer
honors hardware initialization requests
from the computer. The computer
requests initialization by activating the
INIT signal on the parallel interface.
Many personal computers activate the
INIT signal each time the computer is
turned on and off.
Off* Printer does not honor hardware
initialization requests from the
computer.
On Printer honors hardware initialization
requests from the computer.
Job
Buffering
To temporarily store jobs on the printer
hard disk before printing.
Note: Changing this menu item
automatically resets the printer.
Off* Does not buffer print jobs to the hard
disk.
On Buffers print jobs to the hard disk.
Auto Buffers print jobs only if the printer is
busy processing data from another
input port.
MAC Binary
PS
To configure the printer to process
Macintosh binary PostScript print jobs.
On Printer processes raw binary
PostScript print jobs from computers
using the Macintosh operating system.
Note: This setting often causes
Windows print jobs to fail.
Off Printer filters PostScript print jobs
using standard protocol.
Auto* Printer processes print jobs from
computers using either Windows or
Macintosh operating systems.
NPA Mode
To specify whether the printer
performs the special processing
required for bidirectional
communication, following the
conventions defined in the Network
Printing Alliance (NPA) Protocol.
Note: Changing this menu item
automatically resets the printer.
On Printer performs NPA processing. If
data is not in NPA format, it is rejected
as bad data.
Off Printer does not perform NPA
processing.
Auto* Printer examines data and determines
the format and then processes it
appropriately.