Ascii And Pcl Printing Utilities; Ascii And The Ps Or Pcl Decomposers; Setpclcontrol Utility - Xerox 6100BD - Phaser Color Laser Printer System Manual

ASCII and PCL printing utilities

System Guide
ASCII printing within various environments results in output that is
not always formatted as desired. Unfortunately, there is no
"standard" method for printing ASCII files. ASCII is a character set
and not a Page Description Language. Therefore, ASCII files do
not contain format commands. Furthermore, there is no de facto
standard for ASCII formatting.
Nonetheless, users often have the requirement to match a specific
format. The utility below enables this formatting flexibility along
with a feature in Queue Manager that allows the administrator to
select the default document format.

ASCII and the PS or PCL decomposers

The Xerox Freeflow Print Server software automatically wraps
ASCII files with a predefined set of PostScript code and sends the
data through the PostScript decomposer. Unfortunately, this
predefined formatting does not always meet customer ASCII
printing needs and there are no "knobs" to change the formatting
within PostScript.
As an alternative, ASCII files can be identified as PCL and sent
through the PCL decomposer. The PCL decomposer does provide
some additional capabilities that can be used to modify ASCII files
as desired.
To force ASCII files to use the PCL decomposer, change the file
format in Job Manager. This can also be done by changing the
queue default document property from ASCII to PCL.

setpclcontrol utility

The setpclcontrol utility offers the following user controls:
• Set the site default for the PCL decomposer line termination.
Setting these options allows both native PCL files and ASCII
streams forced through the PCL decomposer to be
conditioned with various combinations of carriage returns
(CR), line feeds (LF), and form feeds (FF). Mainframe and
UNIX environments typically require some form of CR/LF/FF
adjustment.
• Set a custom paper size to map to the PCL escape sequence
<esc>&|101A (which denotes "print on custom stock size").
HP printers generally respond to this command by imaging an
area of 11.7 x 17.7 inches and then printing the image,
centered, on whatever stock is supplied by the operator. The
setpclcontrol utility allows you to specify a single image and
paper size to correspond with this escape sequence.
Printing and queue management
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