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Standard network or network menus – Dell 5350dn Mono Laser Printer User Manual

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Standard Network or Network menus

Menu item

Description

PCL SmartSwitch

On

Off

Sets the printer to automatically switch to PCL emulation when a print job requires
it, regardless of the default printer language

Notes:

On is the factory default setting.

When the Off setting is used, the printer does not examine incoming data.

When the Off setting is used, the printer uses PostScript emulation if PS
SmartSwitch is set to On. It uses the default printer language specified in the
Setup menu if PS SmartSwitch is set to Off.

PS SmartSwitch

On

Off

Sets the printer to automatically switch to PS emulation when a print job requires
it, regardless of the default printer language

Notes:

On is the factory default setting.

When the Off setting is used, the printer does not examine incoming data.

When the Off setting is used, the printer uses PCL emulation if PCL SmartSwitch
is set to On. It uses the default printer language specified in the Setup menu
if PCL SmartSwitch is set to Off.

NPA Mode

Off

Auto

Sets the printer to perform the special processing required for bidirectional
communication following the conventions defined by the NPA protocol

Notes:

Auto is the factory default setting.

Changing this setting from the printer control panel and then exiting the
menus causes the printer to restart. The menu selection is updated.

Network Buffer

Auto

3K to

Sets the size of the network input buffer

Notes:

Auto is the factory default setting.

The value can be changed in 1K increments.

The maximum size allowed depends on the amount of memory in the printer,
the size of the other link buffers, and whether Resource Save is set to On or
Off.

To increase the maximum size range for the Network Buffer, disable or reduce
the size of the parallel and USB buffers.

Changing this setting from the printer control panel and then exiting the
menus causes the printer to restart. The menu selection is updated.

Mac Binary PS

On

Off

Auto

Sets the printer to process Macintosh binary PostScript print jobs

Notes:

Auto is the factory default setting.

The Off setting filters print jobs using the standard protocol.

The On setting processes raw binary PostScript print jobs.

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