Lexmark 1200 Manuale Utente

Chapter 4: Managing memory

Your printer comes with 4MB of standard flash memory. If 
you frequently download fonts, macros, forms, or symbol 
sets to your printer, you may want to use flash memory 
storage, rather than RAM. Resources stored in flash mem-
ory are not lost when the printer power is turned off or the 
printer is reset.

If you have a large number of permanent resources you’d 
like to download to your printer, you may want to install a 
hard disk option. The hard disk works much like flash 
memory, but has a larger storage capacity for downloaded 
resources. You can also use the hard disk for job buffering, 
collating large jobs, and gathering job statistics. 

For instructions on installing a hard disk, refer to the 
printer Setup Guide. 

You can partition a portion of the hard disk for job buffer-
ing. In some cases, spooling jobs to a disk may decrease 
the time required for the printer to accept the print job 
data from the application. The job also remains stored in 
the disk until the entire job prints. Since disk memory acts 
as permanent storage, that means your jobs remain secure 
in the event of a power failure.

You can enable or disable job buffering for each of the 
available printer ports (parallel, serial, fax, network, 
LocalTalk, and infrared) from the printer operator panel 
menus or from MarkVision. Use the Job Buffer Size menu 
item in the Setup Menu to set the percentage of the disk 
you want to use for job buffering.

If you are collating a large job and the printer memory is 
not sufficient, the printer automatically uses storage area 
available on an installed hard disk to finish collating the 
job. See page 22 for more information about collation.