Using Services - Brother HL 1270N - B/W Laser Printer Network User's Manual

Appendix B

Using Services

A service is a resource that can be accessed by computers that wish to print
print server. The Brother print server provides the following predefined services (do a SHOW
SERVICE command in the Brother print server remote console to see a list of available
services):
Service
BINARY_P1
TEXT_P1
POSTSCRIPT_P1
PCL_P1
BRN_xxxxxx_P1_AT
BRN_xxxxxx_P1
where "xxxxxx" is the last six digits of the Ethernet address (for example, BRN_009C53_P1).
Note that any of the services, not just the user-defined ones, can be modified to meet a user's
particular requirements.
Brother print servers provide the powerful capability to customize any of the services to meet
specific user requirements through the use of setup and reset strings. Such strings are printer
command sequences that are sent to the printer before or after the print job. For example, you
could define one of the services to provide landscape mode printing by defining a setup string
that contains the appropriate command to put the printer into landscape mode.
Brother print servers provide several predefined strings for popular PCL, PostScript, and PJL
(the Page Job Language used by Brother printers) commands. These include (do a SHOW
SERVER STRING command in the remote console to see the available strings):
Definition
TCP/IP binary service
TCP/IP text service (adds carriage
return after each line feed)
PostScript service (switches PJL-
compatible printer to PostScript
mode)
PCL service (switches PJL-
compatible printer to PCL mode)
AppleTalk service
NetWare service and NetBIOS
service (TCP/IP are enabled for
backwards compatibility)
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