View
and Configure Parallel Port Settings
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Function
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Description
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Parallel Port Enabled (Phaser 360)
Port Enabled (Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, 600 printers)
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This field allows you to enable and disable the protocol.
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Language
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Select the language you want the printer to receive on the Parallel port; the choices are listed here (not all printers support all languages):
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PostScript
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AutoSelect
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HP-GL
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PCL5
If you select
AutoSelect, the printer automatically senses the language of the print job and processes it accordingly; this is called automatic language selection. Refer to your printer's user manual for more information about automatic language selection and which languages the printer supports.
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Encoding
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This list box allows you to set the Adobe PostScript protocol appropriate for the printer driver you are using:
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Raw. An encoding scheme that provides no communication functions. It is often used when Language is set to AutoSelect.
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Binary. An 8-bit encoding scheme that provides some communication functions, such as end-of-file and abort job. This has been superseded by TBCP.
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TBCP
(Tagged Binary Communications Protocol). An 8-bit encoding scheme that provides some communication functions, such as end-of-file and abort job. This is the recommended protocol for Adobe-supplied printer drivers.
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Normal. An ASCII-based encoding scheme that is used for sending PostScript language jobs to the printer. It is not recommended for jobs that contain binary data.
Note: Protocol
cannot be set to
Normal
if
Language
is set to
AutoSelect,
PCL, or
HP-GL;
Protocol
cannot be set to
Raw
if
Language
is set to
PostScript.
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Handshake
(Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, and 600 printers only)
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This list box determines the type of status that the printer can send to a host computer. Choosing
Uni-directional
enables minimal status reporting from the printer using the parallel status lines only. Choosing
Bi-directional
enables detailed status reporting from the printer for drivers that can accept bi-directional status reporting over a parallel channel.
Note: If Communication is set to
Uni-directional,
Output Device
must be set to null string (select any text in the field and delete it). With a PhaserShare Ethernet or Token Ring card, if
Communication
is set to
Bi-directional, the
Output Device
must be set to
%Parallel%.
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Back Channel (Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, and 600 printers only)
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This field specifies the destination for status information from the printer; it can be set to
%Parallel%
(the parallel channel gets data back from the printer) or null string (select any text in the field and delete it). If
Communication
is set to
Uni-directional, this field must be set to
None
(null string). If
Communication
is set to
Bi-directional, this field must be set to
%Parallel%.
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Delayed Output Close*
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When you choose
True
(
On
), the printer does not begin a new job on this port until the current job is completed. When you choose
False
(
Off), the printer can begin processing a new job while it is still printing a previous job.
For Phaser 380, 350, 340, 560, 550, 600 printers: If
Delayed Output Close
is
False
(
Off
), job accounting is disabled for the parallel port.
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* If this field is not displayed, it is not supported by the printer.
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NOTE
To ensure consistency with PostScript language requirements, if the
Handshake
parameter is set, but the corresponding
Back Channel
parameter is not set, the printer issues a warning and the
Back Channel
parameter is forced to the correct value. For example, if
Handshake
is set to
Bidirectional,
Back Channel
is forced to
Parallel. If
Handshake
is set to
Unidirectional,
Back Channel
is forced to
None. If
Back Channel
is changed without the correct corresponding
Handshake
setting, the printer reports an error.
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