Apple ColorLaserWriter 12/600PS - Manual (Page 162)

Adding hard disks
You can install an internal hard disk and attach up to six external SCSI 40
MB (or larger) hard disks to the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS. The hard disk
provides space for font storage.
When you connect one or more hard disks to your printer to store fonts,
documents will print faster because your computer will rarely need to
download a font to the printer. You’ll also improve network performance
because less information is transferred over network cables.
When you do download a font, you can choose to download it either to a hard
disk or to the printer’s RAM. Downloading it to a disk stores it there
permanently (or until you remove it). If you have a Macintosh, you can
initialize the disks and download fonts to them by using the Apple Printer
Utility program (see “Sending Fonts to the Printer” in Chapter 2). If you have
an IBM PC or compatible computer, you can initialize the disks and
download fonts to them by using the Font Downloader in the Printer Setup
dialog box (see “Downloading Fonts” in Chapter 7).
Connecting a previously used hard disk
The Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS recognizes disks formatted for use with the
Macintosh HFS format. However, the printer will not recognize disks using
other formats. If you attach such a disk to the printer, you will need to
reinitialize the disk before you can use it and then reload any fonts from your
computer. Reinitializing erases everything, including all fonts previously
stored on the disk.
Connecting external hard disks
You must use an HDI-30 SCSI System cable to connect the first external hard
disk to the external SCSI port. For each additional hard disk you connect to
the Color LaserWriter 12/600 PS, you will need a SCSI peripheral cable,
which links two SCSI devices. You’ll also need a SCSI terminator connected
to the last device in the SCSI chain.
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