Konica Minolta Magicolor 2350 EN, Reference Manual

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Active Interfaces
Chapter 5.1—185
Active Interfaces
Your printer is shipped with all standard interfaces active. Using a hot-port
interfacing technique, all interfaces are active and ready to accept incoming
print jobs.
Only one interface can receive an incoming print job at a time.
Interpretation
The print data from the spool buffer is examined by the printer. Each printer
emulation (like PostScript, PCL, GL, etc.) is recognized by examining the
nature of the data. The printer tries to find a match within the first part of the
print data by comparing the print code to specific printer language patterns
stored within the printer.
The printer assigns a criteria-dependent value for each selectable resident
printer emulation. Each emulation is weighed, and either an emulation is
selected or the printer defaults to a user configurable option.
This avoids the need of selecting an emulation in the printer configuration
menu each time. Moreover, manually selecting an emulation for each print job
would be impossible if the printer is in a remote network location, serving a
group of users.
Two situations may occur:
1
No clear match is found. The printer selects the default emulation (usually
PCL5).
Your printer is shipped with the default emulation set to PCL5. You
may select another resident emulation as the default emulation.
2
A clear match is found. The printer activates the appropriate resident
emulation.
The print data is then interpreted, and a special compressed format is gener-
ated and stored until the print job is completely printed. This automatically
enables two major features:
Automatic Jam Recovery . If a media jam occurs, and if the printer power
remains on, the printer is able to reprint the page or pages in the engine at
Test Pages These pages can be used to check print uniformity
and jitter.
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