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to allow you to set the end of document for print jobs being sent
through these protocols.
Common Reasons to Use End Job Mode
If you are printing via the serial and parallel protocols, and one of
the following conditions exists, you may need to set the end job
mode:
■ Multiple print jobs with little or no time delay and with no
EOD commands have been sent to the printer and the
message window displays only one active job.
■ Multiple print jobs of the same printer language have been
sent to the printer and they print on the same page. (For
example, you send the AUTOEXEC.BAT file with no
EOD command followed with little or no time delay by the
CONFIG.SYS file, and they both print on the same page.)
■ Multiple print jobs of different printer languages “run”
together as if they are a single print job. (For example, you
send a PCL print job followed by a PostScript print job,
and the PCL job prints and is followed by what appears to
be program code instead of your PostScript print job.)
■ You want to print multiple jobs with header pages.
■ You want to print multiple jobs where job separation is
important.
When your printer is in ESP mode, printing multiple jobs through
the serial and parallel protocols and end job mode is not set, ESP
technology interprets the emulation for only the first job. The print
jobs that follow are interpreted as being the same emulation as the
first job. For example, if there are two print jobs, the first a PCL
file with no EOD command, and the second a PostScript file with
Appendix F
F - 2 0 A d d i t i o n a l T e c h n i c a l I n f o r m a t i o n