Using Logical Printers To Customize Your Printing - Axis 5900 User Manual

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Section 10 Management and Configuration

Using Logical Printers to Customize your Printing

The AXIS 5900 has a powerful facility for altering the print data.
This means that your desired print format can be realized on any
type of printer. The following actions can be invoked from the
AXIS 5900:
• The character set can be changed to suit the printer
• Strings can be added before and after the print data
• Strings within the print data can be substituted
• ASCII to PostScript conversion
• Redirection of print data to another printer if the printer is busy
• Hex Dump mode to assist with printing problems
If any of these actions are required, a Logical Printer is used to
change the print data before being sent to the printer port. There
are eight logical printers (PR1-PR8) that can be set up to filter
the print data.
The default logical printers settings are such that PR1-PR4 cause
no change to the flow of print data, while PR5-PR8 add CR to LF
control characters:
Logical Printer
Each logical printer can be set via the print servers' internal web
pages: Open a web browser, enter the IP address of the print
server in the Location/Address field and choose admin | Logical
Printer Settings.
The logical printers can also be set up by editing the config file.
Changes to data
PR1 no change
PR2 no change
PR3 no change
PR4 no change
PR5 add CR to LF
PR6 add CR to LF
PR7 add CR to LF
PR8 add CR to LF
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