Printronix L1524 - Manual (Page 64)

3–24 Configuring the Printer
Port Type
Select the types of parallel, serial, and C/T interfaces which are connected to the
printer. For example, if your printer is attached to one host with a Centronics
connection and a second host with an RS–422 connection, you would select
Centronics under the Parallel Hotport menu, and RS–422 under the Serial
Hotport menu.
Trickle Time
When the printer is printing data from a host and a second job is received by the
printer from a different host, Trickle Time prevents the second host from timing
out while it is waiting for its data to be printed. In order to support this feature, the
port has to be able to accept data from the host and store it for future use.
For example, if the printer is printing a job from the serial port, and then receives
a second print job from the parallel port, the data from the parallel port will
“trickle” bit by bit into the printer buffer to prevent a timeout error from being sent
back to the host connected to the parallel port.
The selected value is the time that the printer waits before getting the next byte of
data from the host. The Trickle Time value should be less than the host time out
value, but not too much shorter or else the printer fills up its buffer too fast. This
function is not applicable for the C/T hotport.
Time Out
This is the value used by the printer to time out from the current port and check
the other selected Port Types for data to print. When the printer has not received
data from the host after a certain period of time, it needs to time out in order to
service the other ports.
Report Status
•
Disable. When a fault occurs on the printer, only the active port reports
the fault to the host.
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Enable. The port will only report any fault even when it is not the current
active port.