8.5 Printer-Memory Configuration

The Memory Config button displays a dialog box which contains a list of
possible printer memory configurations. If your printer supports
Hewlett-Packard PCL and the driver supports downloadable fonts, you should
select all possible memory configurations available for your device. A
memory configuration is defined as the amount of RAM available on the
printer to store raster bitmap graphics and downloaded font information.
The Universal Printer Driver will use this information to make sure it does
not send more data to the printer than it is capable of handling. If the
user attempts to print a document requiring more available memory than the
printer possesses, the Universal Printer Driver will display an error
message and send only as much information as the device can process.

The value in the left column specifies the amount of memory available to
the Universal Printer Driver to store downloaded font data and bitmap
raster data. The value in the right column specifies the amount of memory
that will be displayed as available. Because the printer typically reserves
some memory for its own use, these two values are rarely the same. The
following illustration shows the Available Memory Configurations dialog
box:

bitmap:  memcfg

The list of memory configurations ranges from 65K/128K to 5212K/5.5M.


Diconix 150 Plus

For the Diconix 150 Plus printer, no memory configurations have been
selected.


HP LaserJet IIP

For the HP LaserJet IIP printer, the 369/512K, 1419K/1.5M, 2243K/2.5M,
3467K/3.5M and 4491K/4.5M configurations are selected. The HP LaserJet IIP
comes with 512K of memory.

At this point, you should have initialized all of the necessary data for
your minidriver. You can build the driver by exiting the UniTool
application, entering MS-DOS, and moving to the directory that contains
your driver files. Type the xmsmake command to compile and link your
minidriver.