USB Menu 1
Printing
Use the USB Menu to change printer settings affecting a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port
(USB Option ).
Using color Select a menu item for more details:
• Job Buffering • PCL SmartSwitch
Paper handling
• MAC Binary PS • PS SmartSwitch
• NPA Mode • USB Buffer
Maintenance
Note: Values marked by an asterisk (*) are the factory default settings.
Troubleshooting
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USB Menu 2
Printing
Job Buffering
Using color Purpose:
To temporarily store jobs on the printer hard disk before printing.
Paper handling
Values:
Off* Does not buffer print jobs to the hard disk.
On Buffers print jobs to the hard disk.
Maintenance
Auto Buffers print jobs only if the printer is busy processing data from another input port.
Note: Changing the Job Buffering menu item automatically resets the printer.
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USB Menu 3
Printing
MAC Binary PS
Using color Purpose:
To configure the printer to process Macintosh binary PostScript print jobs.
Paper handling
Values:
On Printer processes raw binary PostScript print jobs from computers using the
Macintosh operating system.
Maintenance 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
Troubleshooting operating systems.
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USB Menu 4
Printing
NPA Mode
Using color Purpose:
To specify whether the printer performs the special processing required for bidirectional
communication, following the conventions defined in the Network Printing Alliance (NPA)
Paper handling Protocol.
Values:
Maintenance 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.
Troubleshooting Auto* Printer examines the data to determine the format and then processes it
appropriately.
Note: Changing this menu item automatically resets the printer.
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USB Menu 5
Printing
PCL SmartSwitch
Using color Purpose:
To configure the printer so it automatically switches to PCL emulation when a print job
received through the USB port requires it, regardless of the default printer language.
Paper handling
Values:
On* Printer examines the data on the USB interface and selects PCL emulation if the
Maintenance data indicates that is the required printer language.
Off Printer does not examine the incoming data. The printer uses PostScript emulation
to process the job if PS SmartSwitch is On, or uses the default printer language
specified in the Setup Menu if PS SmartSwitch is Off.
Troubleshooting
See also:
PS SmartSwitch; Printer Language
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USB Menu 6
Printing
PS SmartSwitch
Using color Purpose:
To configure the printer so it automatically switches to PostScript emulation when a print job
received through the USB port requires it, regardless of the default printer language.
Paper handling
Values:
On* Printer examines data on the USB interface and selects PostScript emulation if the
Maintenance data indicates that is the required printer language.
Off Printer does not examine the incoming data. The printer uses PCL emulation to
process the job if PCL SmartSwitch is On, or uses the default printer language
specified in the Setup Menu if PCL SmartSwitch is Off.
Troubleshooting
See also:
PCL SmartSwitch; Printer Language
Administration
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USB Menu 7
Printing
USB Buffer
Using color Purpose:
To configure the size of the USB input buffer.
Paper handling
Values:
Disabled Job buffering is disabled. Any jobs already buffered on the disk are
printed before normal processing of incoming jobs resumes.
Maintenance Auto* Printer automatically calculates the USB Buffer size (recommended
setting).
3K to maximum User specifies the USB Buffer size. The maximum size depends on the
size allowed amount of memory in your printer, the size of the other link buffers, and
Troubleshooting whether Resource Save is set to On or Off. To maximize the range for
the USB Buffer size, disable or reduce the size of the parallel, serial,
network, infrared, and LocalTalk buffers.
Administration Note: Changing the USB Buffer menu item automatically resets the printer.
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USB Menu 8
Printing
See also:
Resource Save ▲
Using color
Paper handling
Maintenance
Troubleshooting
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