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Disabling job buffering, Altering the size of the partition, Recovering print jobs after a power loss

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Disabling job buffering When you disable job buffering for a particular port, the change takes effect immediately. However, we recommend that you reset the printer to free up the printer memory that has been allocated for job buffering. Altering the size of the partition If you alter the size of the job buffering partition, you must manually reenable job buffering for each of the ports. Altering the size of the partition requires reformatting the hard disk. Since the printer settings for job buffering are stored on the disk, they are overwritten. Note: You cannot change the size of the job buffering partition while buffered print jobs are on the disk. Recovering print jobs after a power loss If your printer experiences a power loss, any print jobs fully buffered to the hard disk remain complete. When power is restored, the job buffering code searches the hard disk for these fully buffered print jobs. If it finds one or more, the operator panel displays the following message: Print Jobs on Disk? Pressing Go prints all valid jobs stored on the disk. Once these jobs start printing, new jobs can be received on all ports. Pressing Return or Stop formats the job buffering partition and deletes all print jobs. When you first turn the printer on, you must choose to print all or none of the jobs stored on the disk. You cannot select specific jobs that you want to print. Jobs that were only partially printed before the power loss are printed again in their entirety. However, print jobs that were in the process of being spooled to the disk are most likely lost, and are not printed when power is restored. Why didn't my job print? Under normal circumstances, a buffered print job remains stored on the disk until the entire job is printed. The job is only removed from the disk when the spooler task receives a message back from the print engine stating that the job has completed printing. This lets you reprint complete print jobs after a power failure. Managing memory 172

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Managing memory
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Disabling job buffering
When you disable job buffering for a particular port, the change takes effect immediately.
However, we recommend that you reset the printer to free up the printer memory that has
been allocated for job buffering.
Altering the size of the partition
If you alter the size of the job buffering partition, you must manually reenable job buffering
for each of the ports. Altering the size of the partition requires reformatting the hard disk.
Since the printer settings for job buffering are stored on the disk, they are overwritten.
Note:
You cannot change the size of the job buffering partition while buffered print
jobs are on the disk.
Recovering print jobs after a power loss
If your printer experiences a power loss, any print jobs fully buffered to the hard disk
remain complete. When power is restored, the job buffering code searches the hard disk
for these fully buffered print jobs. If it finds one or more, the operator panel displays the
following message:
Print Jobs on Disk?
Pressing
Go
prints all valid jobs stored on the
disk. Once these jobs start printing, new jobs can be received on all ports. Pressing
Return
or
Stop
formats the job buffering partition and deletes all print jobs.
When you first turn the printer on, you must choose to print all or none of the jobs stored
on the disk. You cannot select specific jobs that you want to print.
Jobs that were only partially printed before the power loss are printed again in their
entirety. However, print jobs that were in the process of being spooled to the disk are most
likely lost, and are not printed when power is restored.
Why didn’t my job print?
Under normal circumstances, a buffered print job remains stored on the disk until the
entire job is printed. The job is only removed from the disk when the spooler task receives
a message back from the print engine stating that the job has completed printing. This
lets you reprint complete print jobs after a power failure.