Printronix P8000 Series Cartridge Ribbon Printer - Manual (Page 95)

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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 or USB port, the data from the
parallel or USB 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.
Timeout
This is the value used by the printer to time out from the current port and
check the other selected port types for data to print. When the printer has not
received data from the host after a certain period of time, it needs to timeout in
order to service the other ports.
Report Status
• Disable (factory default). When a fault occurs on the printer, only the
active port reports the fault to the host.
• Enable . The port will report any fault even when it is not the current active
port.
Switch Out On
NOTE: This option is only available under Ethernet Hotport.
• Data Timeout (factory default). Allows Autoswitching when no data has
been received for the selected Time Out period.
• Session Close . Allows Autoswitching only when the Network Socket is
closed. If the Ethernet option is not installed the Network Socket is always
reported as closed and this menu option is ignored.