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Setting the timeouts – Tektronix 560 User Manual

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Printing Basics

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User Manual

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Setting the timeouts

Each driver provides the ability to change default timeout settings. Refer to
the documentation for your computer’s operating system for information
accessing these settings.

To access the timeout settings

Windows 95

1.

In the

Printers

window, click the Phaser 560 printer icon.

2.

Select

Properties

from the menu.

3.

Click the

Details

tab.

4.

Set the

Timeout settings

.

Windows 3.1

1.

From the

Control Panel

, double-click

Printers

.

2.

Select your printer and click either of the following:

a.

Connect

and

Timeouts

for the Tektronix printer driver.

b.

Setup

and

Features

for the Adobe PostScript driver.

3.

Set the

Timeout settings

.

To change the timeout settings

Device Not Selected

Type a value from

0

to

999

to change the number of seconds that Windows

waits before notifying you that a printer is off-line. The default is

15

seconds.

Transmission Retry

Type a value between

45

and

999

; the default setting is

45

seconds.

On large or multiple-page documents you may see an Alert message that the
printer is no longer accepting data before the job is completely sent to the
printer. When using a shared printer, you should set this option to a larger
value, such as

900 seconds

(15 minutes) to avoid these unnecessary

timeouts.