The 1700 Series; Silentwriter 1760; Silentwriter 1765 - NEC 1760 - SilentWriter B/W Laser Printer User Manual

The 1700 Series

The Silentwriter 1700 Series includes the 1760 and 1765
printers. These outstanding printers share the following
features
• Print speed of up to 17 pages per minute
• 600 dot-per-inch (dpi) resolution for text and images
• Emulation of two popular printer languages:
Adobe's PostScript Level 2 (PS2) page description
language (PDL) and Hewlett-Packard's PCL 5e
printer control language (PCL)
• Automatic Emulation Switching (AES), which
assesses incoming jobs and switches to the
appropriate printer language
• A memory booster chip with Memory Enhancement
Technology for efficient use of printer memory and
improved printing of complex images
• 70 resident outline fonts (35 Intellifont
emulation and 35 Type 1 for PostScript emulation),
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and 10 TrueType typefaces for PCL and PostScript
emulations
• Screen fonts that match the printer's resident fonts
for WYSIWYG formatting in Windows
• NEC Font Manager software and 96 downloadable
fonts on diskette
• Printer operator panel that displays printer status
and offers menu selections at the touch of a button
• 250-sheet feeder with 250-sheet paper cassette
• 250-sheet output tray with full stack sensor
• Multipurpose feeder that holds 100 sheets of paper,
30 transparencies or labels, or 10 envelopes
• NEC printer software for Windows 3.1x,
Windows 95, and MS-DOS that includes printer
drivers, Silentwriter Print Monitor, screen fonts, and
Online Help
• Clean and efficient printer operation centered
around one easily replaceable part—the toner
cartridge
The differences between the 1760 and the 1765 are
described below.

Silentwriter 1760

This versatile printer includes the following standard
features
• Standard 4 megabytes (MB) of random access
memory (RAM) (expandable to 52 MB)
• Connects to one computer for local printing through
the bidirectional parallel port
• Job overlap allows a job in one emulation to process
while a job in the other emulation prints out
• Can be upgraded to the 1765 network printer
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Silentwriter 1765

for PCL
In addition to the standard features of the 1760, the 1765
includes the following features for business and
network optimization
• Standard 6 MB of RAM (expandable to 54 MB)
• A local area network (LAN) card that supports three
industry-standard network interfaces—Ethernet
10Base2, Ethernet 10BaseT, and LocalTalk
Mini-DIN-8
• The Automatic Interface Monitor (AIM). This
technology allows the printer to continuously
monitor and switch between interface ports for
incoming print jobs and other operational
information
• A 500-sheet feeder and cassette to accommodate
heavy work loads
• Silentwriter software for NetWare, TCP/IP,
AppleTalk, and other networks
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