Lexmark C762 User Manual

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CHAPTER 5: Switching Languages
Your printer may support both PCL emulation and PostScript emulation. See your 
printer documentation for more information. This chapter describes ways to switch 
printer languages and explains when you may want to choose one method over 
another. SmartSwitch is provided with the printer to switch languages. Other methods 
of switching languages are:
PJL ENTER LANGUAGE command
Sniffing
SmartSwitch
The SmartSwitch feature lets the printer switch to either PCL emulation or PostScript 
emulation for each interface (parallel, serial, USB, or network). Your printer is shipped 
from the factory with 
SmartSwitch
 set to 
On
 for all languages and all interfaces. 
Consequently, the printer examines all print jobs coming into all its interfaces and 
switches between PostScript emulation and PCL emulation dynamically.
If a software program explicitly tells the printer which language to use by a PJL 
command, the printer always accepts and uses that explicit command, regardless of 
how SmartSwitch has been set from the printer operator panel.
If a software program does not explicitly tell the printer which language to use, the 
printer examines the incoming data stream and selects the language.