Lexmark C520 Menus and Messages Guide - Page 38

Using printer menus Menu item Honor Init Parallel Mode 2 Purpose Values Determines whether the printer *Off honors hardware initialization requests from the computer. The computer requests initialization by activating the INIT signal on the On parallel interface. Many personal computers activate the INIT signal each time the computer is turned on and off. Determines whether the parallel *On port data is sampled on the leading or trailing edge of strobe. Off Mac Binary PS Configures the printer to process On Macintosh binary PostScript print jobs. Off *Auto Printer does not honor hardware initialization requests from the computer. Printer honors hardware initialization requests from the computer. Samples parallel port data on the leading edge of strobe. Samples parallel port data on the trailing edge of strobe. Printer processes raw binary PostScript print jobs from computers using the Macintosh operating system. Note: This setting often causes Windows print jobs to fail. Printer filters PostScript print jobs using standard protocol. Printer processes print jobs from computers using either Windows or Macintosh operating systems. Serial and Serial Use these menu items to change printer settings affecting jobs sent to the printer through an optional serial port. Menu item PCL SmartSwitch Purpose Values Configures the printer so it *On automatically switches to PCL emulation when a print job received Off through the serial port requires it, regardless of the default printer language. PS SmartSwitch Configures the printer so it *On automatically switches to PostScript emulation when a print job received Off through the serial port requires it, regardless of the default printer language. On-The printer examines the data at the serial interface and selects PCL emulation if the data indicates that is the required printer language. Off-The 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. On-The printer examines the data at the serial interface and selects PostScript emulation if the data indicates that is the required printer language. Off-The 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. Menu Groups 38