How Is The Printer Ram Used; Making The Most Of Your Ram; Increasing Throughput - Intermec EasyCoder 3400 User Manual

Chapter 5— Optimizing Printer Performance

How Is the Printer RAM Used?

Making the Most of Your RAM

Increasing Throughput

52
There is enough RAM in the printer to store several different label formats
and still retain enough memory to store downloaded fonts, graphics, and
data. Be careful of how you use your printer memory.
The printer uses static RAM for storing tables, pages, formats, fonts, and
user-defined characters (UDCs). Any RAM you are not using for storage is
available for imaging. For the 3400 and 3600 printers, use PrintSet to
adjust the amount of RAM allocated for storage purposes. If you require
additional RAM, you can purchase a memory expansion option. See
Appendix A for memory expansion information on your printer model.
There are limits to the number of formats, fonts, graphics, or pages that
you can store in the printer. You can define up to 16 fonts, but there may
not be enough room depending on the amount of memory being used for
other purposes. The more formats, graphics, and fonts you store, the less
memory is available.
When you run into a memory usage problem, use PrintSet to see how
much memory remains available. You must upload the memory
information from the printer first. For the 3400 and 3600 printers, you
can adjust the amount of RAM allocated for storage from 10K to an upper
limit that is printer dependent.
If you find that it is necessary to increase your available memory, you can
do one of the following:
• For the 3400 and 3600 printers, adjust the amount of RAM allocated
for storage purposes with the PrintSet software. You can also adjust the
amount of storage RAM with IPL commands. See the IPL Programming
Reference Manual for more information.
• Increase the amount of available memory by using the Memory Reset
portion of the Test and Service menu. See "Resetting the Memory on
Your Printer" on page 59 for more information.
• Delete any unneeded user-defined fonts, graphics, pages, or formats. For
help, see the PrintSet software or the IPL Programming Reference
Manual.
• Purchase additional memory. Please contact your Intermec
representative for information on purchasing additional memory for the
printer.
To print labels as quickly as possible, you must adjust the print speed in
conjunction with the number of image bands (one image band equals 1
inch of label). The print speed and image band settings determine the rate
3400, 3440, and 3600 Bar Code Label Printer User's Manual