6-45Printing Environment Settings6SETUP Menu SettingsINTERFACE MENU OptionsI/F CONNECTIONPARALLEL ............................ON*, OFFUSB ......................................ON*, OFFNETWORK ...........................ON*, OFFEXT.INTERFACE*1 ...............ON*, OFF*1 EXT.INTERFACE is displayed only when the optional expansion interface board is installed.Specifies the settings for the interfaces used for communication with thecomputer, etc.You can specify ON or OFF for each interface.Even if multiple interfaces are set to ON, the printer automatically switches to theone that received the data first. Therefore, you do not need to change the settingin the printer each time you connect the printer to different types of interfaces atthe same time.IMPORTANTAfter changing the settings for this item, cycle the power of the printer or perform ahard reset to make the settings effective.MODE TIMEOUTOFF, 5 to 300 seconds; 15 seconds*Specifies the function to finish a job automatically.If you specify the time the printer times out in this item, the printer can finish a jobautomatically when the specified time has elapsed since no data is entered.If this item is specified, the printer can output paper automatically when data isremaining in the printer because of an application not sending the command tooutput paper.When OFF is specified, the printer does not use the function to finish a jobautomatically.IMPORTANT• If the function to finish a job automatically is specified, the job may be finished inthe middle of the process when the computer takes a long time to process the data.In this case, adjust the time the printer times out.• When you are using an optional hard disk, specify the setting other than OFF forthis item. It is recommended that you should leave this item at the default setting,15 seconds, if possible.
