<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:43 PM, tom <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com" target="_blank">thomas.w.cranston@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">Any idea what the battery is for, or what it is saving? Is it common
to have batteries in printers?<span><font color="#888888"><br>
<br></font></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51);display:inline">Since this thing has been around since pre-2000, it's likely that for that era of printer, it has some kind of low level BIOS in it. The battery keeps that NVRAM</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51);display:inline">warm, I would imagine. </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,0,51);display:inline">Newer ones have their own higher level OS and web servers and other things in them. </div><span style="color:rgb(51,0,51);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"></span></div></div><br></div></div>