HP LaserJet 5p/mp Service Manual - Page 132

HP LaserJet 5P/5MP, 6P/6MP Printer Service Supplement New Product Features Resource Saving Resource Saving gives the printer the ability to save certain entities such as permanent soft fonts, macros, symbol sets and user-defined graphics patterns when the printer changes personalities, resolutions or page protect modes. For example, if a user switches the printer from PCL mode to PostScript mode, all PCL soft fonts and macros are lost. With resource saving, the HP LaserJet 5P/5MP, 6P/6MP printer can retain these in memory. When the user switches back to PCL from PostScript all of the PCL entities would still be resident in the HP LaserJet 5P/5MP, 6P/6MP printer. Resource Saving can be changed via software, but can only be accessed when the printer has the PostScript language installed and a minimum memory configuration of 7 MB. Resource Saving can be set via software for one of three modes, AUTO (default), ON, and OFF. Auto configuration sets the Resource Saving for PCL and Postscript to a minimum value (400 KBytes) for each personality. Setting Resource Saving to ON allows the user to determine how much printer memory will be used for Resource Saving for the PCL personality and the Postscript personality. The memory can be allocated in 100 KBytes increments. For example, if the user sets the Resource Saving memory size to 200 KBytes, a total of 400 KBytes of memory will be assigned to Resource Saving. 200 KBytes of memory will be used for Postscript Resource Saving and 200 KBytes of memory will be used for PCL Resource Saving. Turning Resource Saving OFF disables the Resource Saving function and no memory is allocated to Resource Saving. 29