Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide

Printer Resources

The Resources section of the View/Change Printers dialogue deals with printer
resource management. (The Id number is the internal identifier used by PARIS
for that set of printer resources and cannot be edited.)

How PARIS manages printer resources

Resource management, the downloading of fonts, forms and graphics to the
printer, is automatically controlled by PARIS, but varies according to the
capabilities of the device and Page Description Language (PDL) being used.

There are four general levels of resource management:

I.   Printers with permanent storage available.

PARIS is capable of permanently storing the font resources of some printers.
For these printers, when a resource is first sent to the printer, PARIS sets a flag
to indicate the resource is permanently stored and it is not sent again unless
specifically instructed.

Refer to the section Updating Resources on page 27 (For full details of which
printers are currently supported, contact your distributor.)

II.  PCL printers (no permanent storage).

When printing to PCL printers (those with no permanent storage), PARIS uses
its resource flag system to indicate that resources are stored in the printers
memory. Because this is memory-based storage, these resources are lost if the
printer is turned off, or overwritten if another application sends output to the
printer.

If the printer is turned off or reset, you must use the ‘Reset at start of next job’
option in the PARIS Spooler to reset the flags to their initial state.