Diskettes for Xerox printers

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Did you know, that Elixir now supports diskettes formatted as low or high density, for Xerox printers.  You must have version 3.21 for this option.

If your printer supports high density (1.44M) 3.5" diskettes:

1 Copy Xerox output file or files to the diskette icon on the ElixiSys Desktop

2 Select [Xerox 9700] as the Diskette Type


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3 Select [3.5"] as the Xerox Drive and [high] as the Xerox Density

4 Selected files will be written to the 3.5" diskette ready to be transferred to your Xerox printer

If your printer supports low density (720K) 3.5" diskettes:

1 Copy Xerox output file or files to the diskette icon on the ElixiSys Desktop

2 Select [Xerox 9700] as the Diskette Type


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3 Select [3.5"] as the Xerox Drive and [low] as the Xerox Density

4 Selected files will be written to the 3.5" diskette ready to be transferred to your Xerox printer

Notes: Only pre-formatted 3.5" diskettes can be used with the ElixiSys Desktop. These diskettes must be formatted at your Xerox printer.

If you are running Elixir software under Windows NT, please see information below

ElixiDisk Utilities for NT

Under Windows NT, application programs no longer have direct access to hardware devices. All device requests are passed through NT's Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL). Due to the restrictions imposed by this architecture, the ElixiDisk utilities only support a subset of the floppy disk formats handled by the centralized printers. The following formats are supported under NT:

  • 3.5" low-density
  • 5.25" high-density

In order to use one of these formats, a special update to your ElixiDisk utilities is required. You must contact your Elixir representative to obtain this update.

The following functions can be performed using the enhanced ElixiDisk utilities:

From the Desktop, files can be copied to/from and deleted from diskettes. The directory listing ("For READing") and formatting functions cannot be used under NT.

From a DOS window, files can be copied to/from (XCPY.EXE) and deleted (XDEL.EXE) as well as a directory listing obtained (XDIR.EXE). Diskettes cannot be formatted.