Xerox 4510 User Manual

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The 4505/4505ps printers provide a parallel port, serial port, 
and 
 
one
 
 additional network interface port option, 
 
all of which 
may be active at the same time
 
The 4510/4510ps printers provide a parallel port, serial port, 
and 
 
three
 
 additional network interface port options, 
 
all of 
which may be active at the same time
 
To coordinate automatic switching among the ports, the 
printer monitors the parallel, serial, and network interface 
ports for incoming data. When a print job is detected on one 
port, the printer sends a busy signal to the other ports and 
queues the print job into memory for processing. This is 
called 
 
port polling
 
. Note that while all ports may be 
simultaneously active, only one port at a time is able to 
receive a print job.
 
For the 4505/4505ps printers:
 
When print jobs are pending on all three ports (parallel, 
serial, and the network interface port), the port polling 
sequence is:
1 Parallel
2 Serial
3 Network
4 Back to Parallel
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