Epson RIP Station 5100 Administrator's Manual page 47

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3-13 Network Setup options
Network Setup
Port Setup
Parallel Port Setup options
You must enable the parallel port in order to enter the Parallel Port Setup options and
print to the parallel port.
Parallel Port Setup
Enable Parallel Port
Yes/No [Yes]
Select Yes if you want to print through the parallel port. You can connect a single
Windows computer to the parallel port and print directly to the RIP Station.
Enabling the parallel port does not conflict with using Ethernet communication
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with the RIP Station.
Port Timeout in Seconds
5-60 [5]
This option appears only if
how long the RIP Station waits without receiving data from the parallel port before
deciding that the current job is complete. Until the timeout, the RIP Station cannot
receive new jobs through the parallel port, but it can continue to receive network print
jobs.
Ignore EOF Character
Yes/No [No]
This option appears only if
the RIP Station should ignore end-of-file (EOF) messages in a file. This option must
be set to Yes to print PostScript files in binary format (not ASCII); under normal
circumstances, it should be set to No. When this option is set to Yes, the RIP Station
uses the parallel port timeout value to determine when the end of the file has been
reached.
When you have configured the port options, choose another port type, or choose Exit
Port Setup and proceed to Protocol Setup.
is set to Yes. Your setting determines
Enable Parallel Port
Enable Parallel Port is set to Yes. This option specifies that