Data Filters; Forms Card Font Support - Lexmark T656 Technical Reference Manual

Users may incorporate other datastreams by utilizing a data filter to remove characters. See "Data
filters" on page 96 below.

Data filters

The following information is a supplement to the Forms Menu information provided in the Forms and
Bar Code Card User's Guide.
If a data filter is enabled, the incoming forms job is run through that filter before processing by the
DLE.
Data Filter Actions
Data Filter
Disabled
NULL
OFIS
OFIS + NULL
AS400
PCL
ZPL
ZPL-F

Forms Card font support

Not all fonts are recognized by the Forms and Bar Code Card.
The chosen font my be Supported, Recognized, or Not Supported. For supported fonts, the forms
card will use the appropriate font file. For recognized fonts, the forms card will apply a similar font file.
Fonts that are not supported will not print.
One DBCS language is supported: Simplified Chinese. Two fonts are supported: SimHei and
SimSun.
Actions Performed
Indicates that all data filters are off
Removes all NULL characters from datastream
Removes the following Optra Forms
<0x1B>%-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=POSTSCRIPT
<0x01>M%PS
(LexForm) run Bs
or
%!PS-ADOBE
(LexForm) run startup
Performs all actions listed for NULL and OFIS data filters
The AS400 datastream contains only text. However, in order to produce bold and
underlined text, extra lines are added to the datastream to produce double strikes or
underlines. These extra lines are removed by this filter.
Removes all PCL5 emulation escape sequences and leaves the text data
Removes all ZPL escape sequences and leaves the text data
Performs the same actions as the ZPL filter, except uses the '@' as the "format
instruction" prefix
Data filters
TM
Initialization Strings from the datastream:
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