Printer Sharing Card - IBM 6360 Product Support Manual

Display
Adapter
Beam Starts Here
Beam Ends Here - Then returns
to the Start Position
Figure 6-8. Display Character Forma-
tion
PRINTER SHARING CARD
Printer sharing between work stations
is a Displaywriter optional feature
for the 40 and 60 CPS printers.
Printer sharing is not supported for
the 15.5 cps printer. One or two sec-
ondary work stations can share the
printer of the primary work station.
In Figure 6-9, the work station that
has the printer sharing card is the
primary work station.
Printing tasks are sent from the sec-
ondary work stations to the primary
work station. The primary work sta-
tion handles printing priority, queu-
ing of printer requests, and
communications with the printer.
The status of the printer is displayed
at the work station that requests
tasks to be
printed~
Control of the printer is assigned by
the software, (Textpack I I or above),
and the work station is assigned by
the printer sharing card. Once a work
station has control of the printer, it
maintains control until the operator
releases control or until that work
station
I
s queue goes empty. Control
will then go to the work station with
the next queue number.
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