Printronix P7000 H-Series Cartridge Ribbon Printer - Manual (Page 75)

E-Net Adapter Submenu
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Trickle Time
When the printer is printing data from a host and a second job is received by
the printer from a different host, Trickle Time prevents the second host from
timing out while it is waiting for its data to be printed. In order to support this
feature, the port has to be able to accept data from the host and store it for
future use.
For example, if the printer is printing a job from the serial port, and then
receives a second print job from the parallel port, the data from the parallel
port will “trickle” bit by bit into the printer buffer to prevent a timeout error from
being sent back to the host connected to the parallel port.
The selected value is the time that the printer waits before getting the next
byte of data from the host. The Trickle Time value should be less than the
host time out value, but not too much shorter or else the printer fills up its
buffer too fast. This function is not applicable for C/T hotport.
Offline Process
• Disable (the default). When set to disable, the printer does not process
parallel/network data while offline.
• Enable. When set to enable, the printer continues to process (but not
print) the current network/parallel job while the printer is offline until the
printer's buffer is full.
E-Net Adapter Submenu
The E-Net Adapter interface allows you to locate the printer on a LAN rather
than attach the host directly into the printer. The detailed configuration of this
option is given in the
Network Interface Card User's Manual .
E-Net Adapter
(from page 60)
Buffer Size
in K
64*
1
2
4
8
16
32
128
256
* = Factory Default