Printer
Features
QMS 4060 Print System Getting Started
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User Benefit—When your printer is in ESP mode, you can easily
print PostScript, HP PCL 5e, HP-GL, or Lineprinter documents with-
out changing printer switch settings or sending software commands
to accommodate different printer languages.
The QMS 4060 Print System prints almost any file sent in a language
ESP technology understands, whether you have one, two, or more
hosts, and whether you are communicating through an Ethernet,
Centronics or bidirectional IEEE 1284 parallel, or a second network
interface. Most users never have to change from ESP mode to
another mode.
Simultaneous Interface Operation (SIO)
Although many other printers have multiple interface ports and auto-
matically designate a “hot port,” only one port actively receives data
at a time. Your printer is unique because SIO allows all of its interface
ports—Ethernet, parallel (Centronics and bidirectional IEEE 1284),
the optional serial interface, and one other optional interface (Serial,
CrownNet for Ethernet and Token-Ring, DECnet-TCP/IP, or Local-
Talk)—to be active at the same time. You can have more than one
host computer printing to the printer. Each interface has an input
buffer that receives data while another interface is being used to print.
The standard interfaces let you connect to any Ethernet network or
directly to an IBM PC or compatible. The printer also works in many
other minicomputer, mainframe computer, Macintosh, and network
environments.
User Benefit—You can have more than one computer sending print
jobs to the printer. Each interface has an input buffer (which may be
expanded with additional memory or an optional hard disk) that
receives data while another interface is being used to print.
