Usb menu – Dell 2230d/dn Mono Laser Printer User Manual

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USB menu

Menu item

Description

PCL SmartSwitch

On

Off

Sets the printer to automatically switch to PCL emulation when a print job received
through a USB port requires it, regardless of the default printer language

Notes:

On is the factory default setting.

When the Off setting is used, the printer does not examine incoming data.

When the Off setting is used, the printer uses PostScript emulation if the PS
Smartswitch setting is On. It uses the default printer language specified in the
Setup menu if the PS SmartSwitch setting is Off.

PS SmartSwitch

On
Off

Sets the printer to automatically switch to PostScript emulation when a print job
received through a USB port requires it, regardless of the default printer language

Notes:

On is the factory default setting.

When the Off setting is used, the printer does not examine incoming data.

When the Off setting is used, the printer uses PCL emulation if the PCL
Smartswitch setting is On. It uses the default printer language specified in the
Setup menu if the PCL SmartSwitch setting is Off.

NPA Mode

On

Off

Auto

Sets the printer to perform the special processing required for bidirectional
communication following the conventions defined by the NPA protocol

Notes:

Auto is the factory default setting.

Changing this setting automatically resets the printer.

USB Buffer

Disabled

Auto

3K to <maximum size allowed>

Sets the size of the USB input buffer

Notes:

Auto is the factory default setting.

The Disabled setting turns off job buffering. Any jobs already buffered are
printed before normal processing is resumed.

The USB buffer size value can be changed in 1 K increments.

The maximum size allowed depends on the amount of memory in the printer,
the size of the other link buffers, and whether the Resource Save setting is On
or Off.

To increase the maximum size range for the USB Buffer, disable or reduce the
size of the parallel buffer.

Changing this setting automatically resets the printer.

Mac Binary PS

On

Off
Auto

Sets the printer to process Macintosh binary PostScript print jobs

Notes:

Auto is the factory default setting.

The Off setting filters print jobs using the standard protocol.

The On setting processes raw binary PostScript print jobs.

Understanding the printer menus

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