Logical Printers For Customized Printing - Axis 5500 User Manual

Configuration Possibilities

Logical Printers for Customized Printing

Notes:
Character Set
Conversion
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The AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 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 print server:
• 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
PR1
PR2
PR3
PR4
PR5
PR6
PR7
PR8
Each logical printer can be set via the print server's internal Web pages: Open a
Web browser, enter the IP address of the print server in the Location/Address
field and select Admin | Logical Printers.
The logical printers can also be set up by editing the config file. See "Editing the
config File" on page 69.
• The examples in this section describe how you can configure the available logical printers
using a standard Web browser. If you want to set them directly by editing the config file,
just enter the values for the corresponding parameters.
• The examples should only be viewed as suggestions how to configure the logical printers.
You should, of course, configure them according to the needs of your network.
• In the Parameter List chapter of this manual, you can find a complete list of the AXIS
5500/AXIS 5550 parameters.
A common problem in a multiple host environment is that different hosts use
different ASCII character sets. As a result of this, language specific characters
(such as å ü ô ñ) are sometimes printed incorrectly.
The AXIS 5500/AXIS 5550 solution to this problem is to assign a character set
conversion filter to a logical printer, and then link that logical printer to the
host causing the problem.
Changes to data
no change
no change
no change
no change
add CR to LF
add CR to LF
add CR to LF
add CR to LF
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