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  • Page 2 Hewlett-Packard Company. DEC, DECnet, LN03, and VMS are registered trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation. UNIX/UNIX Systems Laboratories. The digitally encoded software included with your QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System is Copyrighted 1995 by QMS, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This software may not be reproduced, modified, displayed, transferred, or copied in any form or in any manner or on any media, in whole or in part, without the express written permission of QMS, Inc.
  • Page 3 How to Use this Manual ... 1-2 Typographic Conventions 1-3 Shipment Contents ... 1-4 QMS Product Registration ... 1-5 Configuring the QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System ... 1-5 Methods of Configuration ... 1-5 Configuration for Individual Jobs 1-6 Configuration for Departmental Use 1-7 Before You Begin ...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Selection of Choices 1-11 Alphanumeric Values 1-13 Saving Printer Configuration Changes ... 1-14 Upgrading Print System Software ... 1-15 Using the Printer’s Floppy Disk Drive 1-16 Using the Parallel Port 1-19 Introduction ... 2-2 Keypad Language ... 2-2 Passwords ... 2-3...
  • Page 5 Copying the Accounting Files 3-21 Processing Accounting Information on the Host 3-23 The Communications Submenu ... 4-2 Timeouts ... 4-3 PS Wait Timeout 4-3 Emul Timeout 4-4 Job Timeout 4-4 ESP Timeout 4-4 Serial Communication ... 4-5 Mode 4-6 Emulation 4-6 Min K Spool 4-6 Spool Timeout 4-6 End Job Mode 4-7...
  • Page 6 AppleTalk Communication ... 4-15 Mode 4-15 Connection 4-16 Min K Spool 4-16 Def Job Prio 4-16 Optional Interface ... 4-16 The Emulations Submenu ... 5-2 ESP Default Option ... 5-3 PCL 5 ... 5-4 Default Font 5-5 Symbol Set 5-5 Lines/Inch X100 5-5 Line Termination 5-6 Point Size X100 5-6...
  • Page 7 Tab Stops 5-12 LF IS CRLF 5-12 CR IS CRLF 5-13 FF IS CRFF 5-13 Orientation 5-13 Autowrap 5-13 Lines Per Page 5-13 Margins 5-13 HP-GL ...5-14 Plotter 5-14 Scaling Percent 5-15 Origin 5-15 Reverse Image 5-15 Enhanced Mode 5-15 Expand Mode 5-16 Paper Type 5-16 Pens 1-8 5-16...
  • Page 8 Do Error Handler 6-6 Introduction ... 7-2 QMS Memory Management 7-2 QMS Memory Definitions ... 7-3 Evaluation of Your Printing Environment ... 7-5 Printer Features and Memory Clients 7-6 Memory Submenu ... 7-8 Memory Clients ... 7-8 Spool Buffers 7-9 PS Heap 7-10...
  • Page 9 Powersave Mode 8-8 Maintenance Due 8-8 Miscellaneous Options ... 8-9 Restore Defaults 8-9 Clock Operations 8-10 Printer Name 8-10 Printer Type 8-10 The Disk Operations Submenu ...8-11 Identifying Hard Disks 8-11 Installing Optional Fonts and Emulations 8-12 Removing Fonts and Emulations 8-15...
  • Page 10 Centronics Parallel ...B-3 Notes to the Centronics Parallel Cable Pinouts Table B-4...

  • Page 11: How To Use This Manual

    How to use this manual Configuring the printer Methods of configuration Printing a status page The configuration menus The control panel keys Changing default settings Installing system software upgrades...

  • Page 12: Introduction

    This manual is designed to help you, the system administrator, cus- tomize printer configuration with as little trial and error as possible. Chapter 1 - Introduction This chapter introduces the printer and the configuration menu structure and explains how to upgrade system software.

  • Page 13: Typographic Conventions

    This chapter explains the configuration options in the Engine, Miscellaneous, and Disk Operations submenus of the Administra- tion menu. These options control the printer’s image alignment and input and output bin names, specialized duplexing options, and the use of optional printer hard disk(s).
  • Page 14 Your shipment contains the following: The QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System The QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System User’s Guide The QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System Administrator’s Guide The PS Executive Series Utilities on disk Two binders The QMS Crown Document Option Commands manual...
  • Page 15 As with any net- work printer, one setting for any particular printer option may not meet the needs of every user. As you are configuring the printer, try to pick the setting that meets the needs of most of the users.
  • Page 16 Applications use printer drivers to send the appropriate commands to the printer. If your application doesn’t have a QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System driver, you can select a comparable PostScript driver, such as another QMS driver or a LaserWriter driver. However, com- parable drivers may not allow access to all of your printer’s features.
  • Page 17 If no QMS DOC appears on the next file, the printer’s default values resume. QMS DOC is the key to making the QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print Sys- tem a true departmental printer. The QMS Crown Document Option Commands manual, included with your printer, gives complete infor- mation on using the commands.
  • Page 18 To avoid confusion in a shared printing environment, only the system administrator should make configuration changes. Before you start configuring the printer, you should have the following: A security disk. This disk allows you to set passwords for the printer set-up menus, and to set the message window language (English, French, German, or Spanish).
  • Page 19 Operator Control, and Administration. The Installation menu, which appears only when the security disk is inserted in the printer’s disk drive, is used to establish pass- words for the Operator Control and Administration menus, and to set the message window language.
  • Page 20 CONFIGURATION ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION DISK OPERATIONS ADMINISTRATION MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATION ENGINE STARTUP OPTIONS DO ERROR HANDLER CONFIGURATION INSTALLATION ADMINISTRATION COMMUNICATIONS ADMINISTRATION MEMORY STARTUP OPTIONS DO START PAGE CONFIGURATION OPERATOR ADMINISTRATION EMULATIONS ADMINISTRATION SPECIAL PAGES ADMINISTRATION STARTUP OPTIONS STARTUP OPTIONS DO SYS START...
  • Page 21 There are two types of printer menu options: those that require you to choose from a selection of possible choices and those that require you to enter an alphanumeric value. Many default settings may never need changing. If an option has choices, the second line of the message window dis- plays each choice one at a time.
  • Page 22 Press the Select key again. This opens the Communications menu. COMMUNICATIONS now displays on the first line of the message window: COMMUNICATIONS TIMEOUTS Press the Next key until SERIAL displays on the second line: COMMUNICATIONS SERIAL Press the Select key to open the Serial submenu: SERIAL MODE Press the Next key until BAUD RATE displays:...
  • Page 23 Review “Saving Printer Configuration Changes” later in this chapter. When an option requires a value, you enter the value one digit or character at a time. You use the Next and Previous keys to increase or decrease the displayed character or digit value.
  • Page 24 Changes.” Whenever you change a printer menu option, the printer prompts you to save the change before you place the printer back on line. Saving a menu change means that the new value of the option is recorded and stored in the printer’s memory.
  • Page 25 8, “Engine, Miscellaneous, and Disk Operations.”). REBOOT NOW? *YES Print system software upgrades for the QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System are supplied on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks. Installing system soft- ware upgrades requires copying the contents of the disks to the...
  • Page 26 QMS system software loaded on your host computer). Both procedures are explained in this section. To install system software upgrades via the printer’s floppy disk drive, follow these instructions: Turn the printer off and then on again. The following mes- sage displays in the message window: QMS SOFTLOAD x.x...
  • Page 27 Disk 6 is the printer’s internal hard disk. Press the Select key. The following message displays: INSTALL TO DISK INSERT DISK Pull the control panel assembly away from the front of the printer. The floppy disk drive is located inside the printer as shown below.
  • Page 28 11 Press the Menu key. The message window displays the fol- lowing message: QMS SOFTLOAD x.x INSTALL TO DISK 12 Press the Next key until the message window displays the following message: QMS SOFTLOAD x.x BOOT SYSTEM 13 Press the Select key to enter the Boot System submenu. The following message appears in the message window: BOOT SYSTEM HARD DISK...
  • Page 29 To install system software upgrades via the parallel port, follow these instructions: Turn the printer off and then on again. The following mes- sage displays in the window: QMS SOFTLOAD x.x READY TO BOOT Once this message appears, you have 10 seconds to press the Select key.
  • Page 30 INSTALL TO DISK COMPLETE Once you have completed installing the system software, you are ready to boot the system. Return to your printer and press the Menu key. The message window displays the fol- lowing message: QMS SOFTLOAD x.x...
  • Page 31 hard disk. Press the Select key. The system begins loading, and the following message displays: BOOT SYSTEM LOADING 13 At this point, DO NOT TOUCH ANY KEYS until the system has completed loading. The system may go through many cycles of rebooting, which may take several minutes. When the system rebooting is complete, the following message appears: IDLE...

  • Page 33: Passwords

    Setting the message window language Setting and using passwords...
  • Page 34 When the security disk is inserted in the printer’s disk drive, you can access the Installation menu. The options in the Installation menu allow you to select the message window language and establish passwords for the Operator Control and Administration menus...
  • Page 35 See chapter 1, “Introduction,” for information on entering alphanumeric values. The password enabling options, Use Operator Pwd and Use Admin Pwd, can be used to prevent unauthorized access to the printer’s configuration menu. If Use Operator Pwd is set On, anyone attempting to enter the Opera- tor Control menu must enter the operator password before accessing any of the submenus.
  • Page 37 Copies Duplex and tumble duplex Collation Orientation Input and output bins Chaining input bins Job accounting...

  • Page 38: Duplex

    The options in the Operator Control menu allow you to set the default values for the various paper handling features of the QMS 3825/ 3225/2025 Print System. The Operator Control menu may be pro- tected by a password (see chapter 2, “Installation Menu,” for more information).
  • Page 39 Advanced Paper Handling option (duplexer, large-capacity input tray, and system table) has been installed. Duplex choices are On and Off. The default value is Off. Setting Duplex to On at the printer makes all jobs print duplex. If you want to print individual jobs duplex, leave the printer setting at Off and choose duplex through your application.

  • Page 40: Orientation

    The choices are Portrait and Landscape. The default is Portrait. If you specify orientation through your application, keep the printer’s Orientation option set to Portrait.The following illus- tration shows page orientation relative to paper in the input bins.
  • Page 41 The choices are Upper, Lower, and LCIT (if the Advanced Paper Handling option is installed). Choose LCIT to use the large-capacity input tray on the 3825, 3225, or 2025 Print Sys- tems or the large-large-capacity input tray on the 3825 or 3225. The default is Upper.
  • Page 42 The illustration below shows the output bins. On the control panel printer icon, the output bins are labeled 1, 2 , and 3 with 1 being the Upper bin, 2 being the Lower bin, and 3 being the Side bin. The optional Large Capacity Output Stacker is not shown on the icon.

  • Page 43: Crown Accounting

    The default value for Chain Inputbin is On. Crown accounting, a tool to help you keep track of the use of printer resources, is available on your QMS Print System, with or without a network connection.

  • Page 44: Accounting Menu

    Job Accounting file(s). The Accounting menu includes five submenus, allowing you to enable or disable job accounting, allocate disk space when accounting is enabled, reset accounting, store job accounting information in a sin- gle job file or in multiple files, and copy the accounting information to a floppy disk.
  • Page 45 If no accounting information exists in the system when shrinking the usage, the job accounting files are recreated using the new size. The printer does not ask for confirmation for this operation. It takes effect immediately. The Resetaccounting option erases the Accounting files and recre- ates them using the current file size.
  • Page 46 10 MB to accounting and select multiple files, the printer creates 10 files of 1 MB each. If you dedicate 5.5 MB to accounting, the printer creates 5 files of 1 MB each and one of 500 KB. The Job file names will be ACC1.JOB, ACC2.JOB, and so on.

  • Page 47: Job Accounting Files

    Job Accounting File (ACC x .JOB) This is the main accounting file. When each job completes, the printer stores an entry for the job in this file. The job accounting file may be a single file or multiple files, with x as the file number when multiple files are used.
  • Page 48 Accounting files are recorded in ASCII format in a series of tagged fields. New fields can be added without losing backward compatibility, because each field is tagged. A version field is included in the ACC.STA file to identify the supported fields as the system evolves. The following conventions are the same for job, paper, and status files: Tag Identifiers...
  • Page 49 20:3, 21: 2 Field Description The Job ID field is the document’s number. The number sequence restarts whenever the printer is turned off and on again. 2:{ 8h 5m52}, 3:{ 2/ 7/95}, 6:{}, 45:{ IF 1 Ethernet}, 1, 18: 0, 19: Example 0: 6 <CR>...
  • Page 50 This field is the document’s internally assigned priority. This field indicates the time a document arrived in the printer by hour, minute, and second. This field indicates the date a document arrived in the printer. This field is the document’s...
  • Page 51 1 / 1000 second) used by the document since its first page started printing until its last page cleared the printer. The Header Count field indicates how many images comprise the document header page(s) subjob.
  • Page 52 A value of 1 for this field indicates no partial collation was necessary. The Jam field indicates how many times the printer jammed while printing the document. The Paper Types Count field indicates how many different types of paper were used in the...
  • Page 53 The following example shows a Paper Accounting file: 22: 8268, 23: 11693, 24: 75, 25:{ white}, 26:{ plain}, 27:{ 22: 8500, 23: 11000, 24: 75, 25:{ white}, 26:{ plain}, 27:{ 22: 7165, 23: 10118, 24: 26:{ 22: 14000, 23: 8500, 24: 26:{ 22: 16535, 23: 11693, 24: 75, 25:{ white}, 26:{ plain}, 27:{...
  • Page 54 The Paper Weight represents the weight per surface square units (g/m 2 ) The Color field indicates the color of the paper. The Type field indicates additional properties of the paper. The Label field represents a name for the paper type. The following is an example of the Status Accounting file: 1, 29: 9, 30: 1048576, 31: 1048576, 32: 74993, 33: 74993, 34:...
  • Page 55 74993 bytes 34: 1 There can be only 1 job accounting file. Although the printer is configured for multiple files (see field 37) there is only one because only 1 MB is dedicated to accounting 35: 1...
  • Page 56 The Number of Jobs field indicates how many documents are accounted for in the Job Accounting file(s). A value of 0 can mean that no jobs have been printed or that accounting is disabled. The Multifile field has a value of 1 if a single file is used and a value of 2 if multiple files are used to store job information.
  • Page 57 DOC. Accounting files should be transferred to your host computer periodi- cally to keep the printer from being overloaded with data and to allow you easy analysis of data. Copy the accounting information in one of the following ways, which are described in detail in the next section.
  • Page 58 Not all files will exist, so you need to copy only the ones that are necessary. Remove the floppy disk from the printer and take it to your host computer. Use the cp command to download accounting information from the printer's hard disk to a floppy disk as follows: Using a remote console, take the printer off line.
  • Page 59 Use FTP on the host to copy the files from the printer’s hard disk to the host as follows: Type ftp printer-name (where printer-name is either the Ethernet address of the printer or its corresponding Ethernet name). When prompted for a user id, enter admin as user name and give the appropriate password, if required.
  • Page 61 Timeouts Serial communications Parallel communications AppleTalk communications Optional interface communications...

  • Page 62: The Communications Submenu

    The default settings for printer-host communications are one portion of the Administration menu. The Communications submenu is shown below. COMMUNICATIONS OPTIONAL INTERFACES COMMUNICATIONS APPLETALK ADMINISTRATION COMMUNICATIONS COMMUNICATIONS TIMEOUTS COMMUNICATIONS SERIAL COMMUNICATIONS PARALLEL...

  • Page 63: Timeouts

    ESP TIMEOUT The PostScript Wait Timeout value is the maximum number of sec- onds the printer waits on data for a PostScript job in process. The range is 0 to 99999 seconds, and the default value is 30 seconds. If this time expires and no new data for the job in process has been received by the PostScript interpreter, the current job is closed.

  • Page 64: Job Timeout

    A value of 0 seconds means that the printer does not time out while waiting on more data.
  • Page 65 The Serial submenu is shown below. SERIAL PS PROTOCOL SERIAL HDWE FLOW CTL SERIAL STOP BITS SERIAL DATA BITS SERIAL XMIT SW FLOW CTL SERIAL RCV SW FLOW CTL SERIAL IGNORE PARITY COMMUNICATIONS SERIAL SERIAL MODE SERIAL EMULATION SERIAL MIN K SPOOL SERIAL SPOOL TIMEOUT SERIAL...

  • Page 66: Mode

    The Spool Timeout option is a numeric value for the number of sec- onds that the printer waits for additional data from the host while it is spooling a job. The range is 00000 to 99999 seconds and the default value is 00030 seconds.

  • Page 67: End Job Mode

    If the Spool Timeout value expires before the printer has received all data for a job it is spooling, the printer terminates the spooled print job. This option selects the End of Job terminator to be used for the serial interface without consideration for interacting timeouts.

  • Page 68: Ignore Parity

    Choices are On and Off. When Ignore Parity is Off, the printer reports parity errors by replacing the character(s) affected by the error with a question mark. When Ignore Parity is On, the printer ignores parity errors and prints its best interpretation of the charac- ter(s) affected by the error.

  • Page 69: Hdwe Flow Ctl

    (0-255) to be treated as data, while allowing a few of the values to function as special control characters. When communicat- ing 8-bit binary data in Binary or Binary Fixed mode, the printer uses the quoting mechanism of the BCP to distinguish between the special control characters and print job binary data.
  • Page 70 XORing ^T with 0x40.) This method of quoting guarantees that whenever any of the eight control characters is received by the printer, the control function is intended regardless of whether the preceding character is a ^A. Any data byte not equal to one of the eight special control characters is transmitted by sending the data byte.

  • Page 71: Ps Protocol

    Disabled to prevent any jobs from being received over the interface. The Emulation option determines the interface’s default emulation. The default value is ESP. You can select a default emulation for the interface from the standard emulations supported by the printer (PCL COMMUNICATIONS PARALLEL PARALLEL...

  • Page 72: Spool Timeout

    The Spool Timeout option is a numeric value for the number of sec- onds that the printer waits for additional data from the host while it is spooling a job. The range is 00000 to 99999 seconds and the default value is 00030 seconds.

  • Page 73: Def Job Prio

    (0-255) to be treated as data, while allowing a few of the values to function as special control characters. When communicat- ing 8-bit binary data in Binary or Binary Fixed mode, the printer uses the quoting mechanism of the BCP to distinguish between the special control characters and print job binary data.
  • Page 74 XORing ^T with 0x40) This method of quoting guarantees that whenever any of the eight control characters is received by the printer, the control function is intended regardless of whether the preceding character is a ^A. Any data byte not equal to one of the eight special control characters is transmitted by sending the data byte.

  • Page 75: Mode

    Disabled, the printer accepts no jobs through this pro- tocol. Enabled mode allows communication between the host com- puter and the printer. Any change to this option takes effect only after turning the printer power off and on again. The default is Enabled.

  • Page 76: Connection

    The range is from 001 to 100. The default is 001, which is the highest priority. You can order an optional interface for your QMS printer so you can connect to other networks. If an optional interface is installed, it appears in the Communications submenu.
  • Page 77 HP PCL5 emulation settings Lineprinter emulation settings HP-GL emulation settings LN03 Plus emulation settings ESP Default settings PostScript emulation levels CCITT and imPRESS information Optional emulations...

  • Page 78: The Emulations Submenu

    The options in the Emulations submenu of the Administration menu select the default values for the various document processing fea- tures of the QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System. The Administration menu may be protected by a password. See chapter 2, “Installation Menu,”...
  • Page 79 The ESP Default lets you set which emulation the printer uses if the Emulation Sensing Processor cannot identify the emulation of a print job. ESP has a specific length of time within which it attempts to iden- tify the emulation (see “Timeouts” in chapter 4 of this manual). If this time expires, the printer automatically uses the emulation you select as ESP Default to process the job.

  • Page 80: Default Font

    The Default Font option has a selection of choices for the PCL 5 default font. Fonts marked with an asterisk (*) are scalable. Select by index instructs the printer to select the font by the Default Font Index. The default value is Courier 12. The choices are...

  • Page 81: Symbol Set

    Courier12 Courier12 Bold Courier12 Italic Courier10 Courier10 Bold Courier10 Italic Lineprinter Symbol Set allows you to select the character set used by PCL 5 jobs. The default for Symbol Set is Roman-8. The choices are Desktop ECMA-94 HP German HP Spanish ISO-2 ISO-4 ISO-6...

  • Page 82: Line Termination

    Line Termination sets the printer response to a carriage return or line feed character while in PCL 5 emulation. The choices are CR = CR, LF = LF CR = CR + LF, LF = LF CR = CR, LF = CR + LF CR or LF = CR + LF CR stands for carriage return.

  • Page 83: Monochrome Gl/2

    This option allows your printer to emulate a monochrome or color plotter. Options are On (sets the printer to monochrome, or 2-pen) and Off (sets the printer to color, or 8-pen). When Monochrome GL/2 is set to On, grayscale patterns are substituted for colors. Default is This option allows you to set the default storage for PCL objects (fonts, macros, and patterns).

  • Page 84: Ln03 Plus

    LN03 PLUS Y-ORIGIN INSET The Product ID setting is the emulation printer model. If your host sends a Device Attributes request to the printer, the printer responds with the product ID. You can select LN03, LQP02, or LA100. The fac- tory default setting is LN03.

  • Page 85: Paper Size

    Use this option to eliminate clipping of the top edge of the image on some systems. The default offset is 75 dots. The Reset Override option determines whether the printer automati- cally resets to the initial power-up configuration before every print job or whether it retains the configuration from the previous print job.

  • Page 86: Orientation

    By selecting PostScript in the Emulations submenu, you are able to choose which emulation level of PostScript the printer uses to print your file. The choices are Level 2 for QMS Level 2 emulation, Level 1...

  • Page 87: Lineprinter

    The Lineprinter submenu contains settings for the default conditions for this emulation. The Lineprinter emulation prints simple byte-ori- ented lineprinter files. A byte-oriented lineprinter handles jobs con- sisting of a series of bytes, where lines are delimited by carriage returns and line feed characters. The illustration below shows the options within the Lineprinter emulation.

  • Page 88: Font

    This option specifies the font to be used to print the current job. Any PostScript fonts available on the printer can be used. To see a list of PostScript fonts available, print an advanced status page. The default is Courier.

  • Page 89: Lines Per Page

    CRISCRLF determines whether each carriage return in the print job is translated to a carriage return/line feed combination. The choices are On and Off with Off being the default. This option stipulates whether each form feed in the print job is trans- lated to a carriage return/form feed combination.

  • Page 90: Hp-Gl

    EXPAND MODE The Plotter option selects which type of HP-GL compatible plotter the QMS printer emulates for HP-GL jobs. The choices are 7470A, 7475A, 7550A, and ColorPro. (Selecting ColorPro does not result in color printing. Colors are represented by varying gray shades.) The default value is 7550A.

  • Page 91: Scaling Percent

    The Scaling Percent option is a numeric value for the percentage of enlargement or reduction of the plot. The minimum value is 1 and the maximum is 150. The default value is 100 (same size). The Origin option is a numeric value for the distance to move the plot origin along the x and y axes in increments of .001".

  • Page 92: Expand Mode

    A4 (210 mm x 297 mm), B (11" x 17"), A3 (297 mm x 420 mm), or Scale to Paper. The default value is Scale to Paper. The Pen options set the width and color of the 8 “pens” the printer uses when printing HP-GL emulation jobs. The pen width may be set from 0 (0 mm wide) to 60 (60 mm wide).

  • Page 93: Ccitt Groups 3 And 4

    By adding the QMS DOC %%IncludeFeature:emulation (ccitt) to the beginning of your file, you can access the printer-resident CCITT Group 3 and 4 emulation. The CCITT command language consists of ASCII text strings that set options for the CCITT emulation. The options must be set on a per-image basis because they are returned to their default values after each image is decompressed.
  • Page 94 Function Causes the CCITT emulation to reverse the bits within each byte of the image data automatically. %%BitReverse (true/false) Syntax true Indicates that the bits are to be reversed. false Indicates that the bits are not to be reversed. Default false Function Indicates whether a CCITT End of Block is included in...
  • Page 95 Function Sets the print resolution (dots per inch) to match the scanned resolution of the original image. %%DPI (horizontal vertical) Syntax horizontal vertical Default Currently selected print system resolution. Notes This command can also be used to scale the image. DPI resolutions above the original scanned resolution will reduce the image while DPI resolutions below the original scanned resolution will enlarge the image.
  • Page 96 Function Instructs the emulation to begin decompression of the image data using the currently set image options. Syntax %%ImageData Default None—no options. Notes You must specify %%ImageSize before %%ImageData. If you do not, the data following %%ImageData is absorbed with no effect on the file. This command begins reading the image data after the end of the current line.
  • Page 97 Function Sets the image size to be used for decompression of the image data that follows the %%ImageData command. %%ImageSize (width height) Syntax width The width of the image in pixels. height The height of the image in pixels. Default None.
  • Page 98 Function Signals the end of a CCITT print job and resets the printer to the default mode. Ends the job and returns the printer to ESP mode. Syntax %%JobEnd Default None—no options. Notes If this command is omitted, the printer remains in CCITT emulation mode until the emulation wait timeout expires (Administration/Timeouts/Emul Timeout menu).
  • Page 99 Function Instructs the emulation to eject the current page (whether or not any data has been printed to it) and clear the page memory. Syntax %%PageEnd Default None—no options. Notes You must include this command for a page to be printed. Image data must be included after this command.

  • Page 100: Impress

    For details about imPRESS, see the QMS imPRESS Pro- gramming Language guide, provided on disk with your printer. The QMS printer supports optional emulations, such as QUIC II. If an optional emulation is installed on the printer, the appropriate emula- tion options display in the Emulations submenu.
  • Page 101 Header and trailer pages Input and output bins for header and trailer pages Status page types Start-up options...

  • Page 102: The Special Pages Submenu

    The options in the Special Pages submenu allow you to configure your printer to print header and trailer pages, and select the type of status page you would like to print. SPECIAL PAGES STATUS PAGE TYPE SPECIAL PAGES TRAILER INPUTBIN A calibration page helps you test and maintain optimal print quality.

  • Page 103: Header Page

    ing the two pages, it’s easy to see the difference in screens, in type quality, and in precision of curves and diagonal lines. To print a calibration page, go to the Administration/Special Pages/ Calibration page menu. Choices are Yes and No with a default of Yes. Select Yes, and a calibration page prints when you exit from the menu.
  • Page 104 This option allows you to choose between the two different status pages, Standard and Advanced. The default is Standard. The Standard page includes printer identification, settings, cur- rent memory configuration, timeouts, communication settings and input buffer sizes, and hard disk status. An angle bracket 0.5" (13 mm) from the lower-left corner of the page is provided to assist with image alignment.

  • Page 105: The Startup Options Submenu

    The options in the Startup Options submenu, shown below, allow you to configure your printer to run certain options every time the printer is turned on. STARTUP OPTIONS DO ERROR HANDLER The Do Start Page option allows you to decide whether the printer produces a start-up page each time it is turned on.
  • Page 106 This option activates a debugging tool that allows you to identify Post- Script errors during a print job. In order for a change to this option to take effect, the printer must be turned off and on. The options are Yes and No. The default is No.

  • Page 107: Evaluation Of Your Printing Environment

    Introduction to memory management Memory definitions Evaluation of your printing environment Memory clients...
  • Page 108 Just remember that if your printing needs change, you can redistribute memory where you feel it would best meet your printing requirements. On the QMS 3225/2025 printers, you can also add memory to a maximum of 32 MB. (The QMS 3825 Print System comes with the maximum 32 MB of memory.)
  • Page 109 The same is true for managing the memory on your printer. There is no single correct way for everyone to allocate printer memory. By evaluating your specific printing needs, you may find a way to config- ure your printer memory that is more efficient for you than the factory default settings.
  • Page 110 RAM your printer has and how that RAM is distributed. The 3825 Print System comes with 32 MB of RAM, the maximum possible for the system. The 3225/2025 Print System comes with 16 MB of RAM which can be upgraded to 32 MB.
  • Page 111 RAM installed. Virtual Memory—Virtual memory extends the effective size of the printer’s memory by using a disk file or swap file to simulate additional memory space. It enables the hard disk to accept data swapped from RAM, temporarily freeing the RAM for other tasks.
  • Page 112 To get started with your memory configuration, check the following table to see which features you use and which memory clients control them. Detailed descriptions of the clients begin on page 7-8. Feature Memory Client Hard disk Disk Cache Resident Emulation emulations Non-...

  • Page 113: Memory Submenu

    Download- PostScript able fonts Font Cache Number of Display List graphics Fonts, PostScript forms, and Heap operators Collating Display list The following sections introduce the memory submenu and the mem- ory clients, with detailed suggestions for manipulating the various memory clients. If you use many different fonts in many different sizes, you may need to dedicate memory to the PostScript Font...
  • Page 114 K MEM DISPLAY Memory clients are specific printer functions with dedicated blocks of memory that enable printer features. Each of the memory clients is located in the Administration/Memory submenu of your printer’s Con- figuration menu. When you allocate memory to a specific client through the control panel, it is allocated in kilobytes (KB).

  • Page 115: Spool Buffers

    The default is Variable. Dedicating Memory to an Interface — Each host interface connec- tion on the printer has its own submenu. Within each of these sub- menus is an option for allocation of Min K Spool. Use the Min K Spool setting under each interface in the Communications submenu to ded- icate memory to an interface.
  • Page 116 If you do not use one or more of the printer interface connections, you may disable that interface. Any disabled interface’s Min K Spool area (15 KB) is added to the excess memory in the Display List.
  • Page 117 The recommended font cache size is in the following ranges: 128 KB to 256 KB for 300 dpi printing 200 KB to 400 KB for 400 dpi printing (3225/2025 Print Systems) 200 KB to 400 KB for 600 dpi printing (3825 Print System) You should experiment to see what font cache size works best for you.
  • Page 118 QMS Crown printers can perform “context switching,” which is the ability to retain downloaded fonts and forms even after the printer changes from one emulation to another. Context switching prevents unnecessary repetitive down- loading and traffic congestion on networks.
  • Page 119 Increasing the amount of memory in this client may improve printing throughput and minimize slowdowns due to duplexing, collating, or printing complex pages. When large jobs are sent to the printer for multiple collated copies, the printer may collate a chunk — perhaps 50 pages of each copy —...
  • Page 120 Also listed as System Use on the status page, this non-configurable information field is the amount of RAM that is used to run the printer’s operating system. It is never increased or decreased. The system memory subtracted from the total amount of RAM identifies the amount of RAM available for all the other memory clients.
  • Page 121 Fine tuning image alignment Selecting default paper Naming input and output bins Using the letterhead and rotate duplex options Clearing a maintenance message Other miscellaneous options Hard disk operations...

  • Page 122: Engine Submenu

    The options in the Engine submenu allow you to adjust image align- ment, select a default paper size, name the input and output bins, set resolution and gamma correction, and use two advanced duplexing options. This submenu also allows you to turn off a DUE message after maintenance has been performed.

  • Page 123: Image Alignment

    Image Align is a numeric value for adjusting the placement of the printed image on the page. There are four types of image alignment: horizontal offset, duplex horizontal offset, vertical offset, and duplex vertical offset. Values for each setting range from 0 to 300 (1"/25.4 cm) pixels with a default of 100.

  • Page 124: Orientation

    Simplex Pages — Use this table to determine which value to adjust and whether to increase or decrease it to get the desired results: To move image with this and this feed edge orientation adjust this control: short edge portrait short edge landscape long edge portrait long edge landscape...

  • Page 125: Default Paper

    The Default Paper option is the paper type the printer uses if a print job requests the default input bin, but the default input bin is not inserted. The choices are Letter or A4. The default is Letter. The choices for input bin and output bin names are alphanumeric val- ues that allow you to assign a logical name to each bin.

  • Page 126: Gamma Correction

    1. This option appears only if the duplexing unit is installed. Simplex and duplex jobs normally exit the printer with opposite orientation. The let- terhead option allows you to print both simplex and duplex jobs with the same orientation, so letterhead paper can be loaded from the same tray for either type job and output does not require sorting.

  • Page 127: Rotate Duplex

    This option, which appears only when the optional duplexing unit is installed, rotates the image 180 to accommodate duplex printing on pre-punched letterhead paper. Feeding prepunched paper with the punched edge first can cause paper jams. If you set rotate duplex to No, you can feed the paper face down with the un-punched edge first.

  • Page 128: Resolution

    The higher setting on the 3825 Print System is 600x600 dpi. The higher setting on the 3225/2025 Print System is 400x400 dpi. The higher setting is the default. The Print Mode allows you to set the print intensity for your jobs, which can be useful for specialized graphics or CAD jobs.

  • Page 129: Restore Defaults

    The options in the Miscellaneous submenu of the Administration menu allow you to restore the factory default values to all configura- tion menu options, to adjust the printer’s internal clock, to change the printer name, and to change the printer type.

  • Page 130: Printer Name

    The default value is QMS 3825 Print System, QMS 3225 Print System, or QMS 2025 Print System, depending on which system you have.

  • Page 131: The Disk Operations Submenu

    The QMS 3825/3225/2025 Print System supports an internal hard disk and up to six optional external hard disks. These disks increase the job spooling capacity of the printer and provide ample space for optional emulations, permanent downloading of fonts, or user file storage.

  • Page 132: Installing Optional Fonts And Emulations

    Optional fonts and emulations for your QMS printer are supplied on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks. Installing optional fonts and emulations requires copying the contents of the disks to the printer’s internal hard disk or to an optional external hard disk, using the Install Option selection from the Disk Operations submenu.
  • Page 133 DOS/INTERNAL, use the printer’s floppy disk drive to install them. xx .ps or xx .eps, use your PC and the printer’s parallel or serial port. Press the Online/Offline key to take the printer off line. Pull the control panel assembly away from the front of the printer.
  • Page 134 The printer must be rebooted to complete the installation. If necessary, connect the PC to the printer’s parallel or serial port. Turn on the printer, and wait for IDLE to appear in the mes- sage window. Insert the emulation disk in your PC’s 3.5" disk drive, and at the DOS prompt change to that drive (for example, if you’re...
  • Page 135 When the downloading is complete, reboot the printer. Use the Remove Option selection if you need to remove an installed option from the printer’s hard disk. To remove an option, you need the original 3.5" disk containing the option files. (The Remove Option selection compares the contents of the disk with the contents of the hard disk.

  • Page 136: Formatting A Disk

    Use the Format Disk selection to perform a DOS format of a 3.5" 1.44 MB disk. You may also use this selection to format the printer hard disk although doing so erases all contents of the disk.
  • Page 137 If you formatted a hard disk, the printer automatically reboots. Like any hard disk, your printer hard disks should be backed up regu- larly. Use the Backup Hard Disk selection from the Disk Operations submenu to perform a full backup (all files stored on the hard disk) or an incremental backup (only files dated after the last previous backup).

  • Page 138: Backing Up The Hard Disk

    Pull the control panel assembly away from the front of the printer. The floppy disk is located inside the printer. (See the illustration in the “Installing Optional Fonts and Emulations” section, earlier in this chapter.)

  • Page 139: Restoring The Hard Disk

    Use the printer control panel to locate the Disk Operations submenu. Press the Select key to enter the Disk Operations submenu. Press the Next key until RESTORE HARD DISK displays on the bottom line of the message window. Press the Select key. When prompted by the display, insert your back-up disk in the floppy disk drive.
  • Page 141 Sources of customer support QMS world-wide offices...

  • Page 142: Q-Fax

    Several sources of help and information are available, depending on the type of help you need: Your local vendor (the one from whom you bought the printer) may be best equipped to help you. Your vendor has specially trained service technicians available to answer questions and the equipment to ana- lyze your printer problems.

  • Page 143: Qms Corporate Bulletin Board System

    The QMS Corporate Bulletin Board System (BBS) contains technical support notes, application notes, drivers, patches, and utilities. If you have technical questions that do not require an immediate reply, you may leave them on electronic mail for the Sysop (System Operator). The bulletin board [(334) 633-3632] operates at 1200, 2400, 9600, and 14400 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, with XMODEM, YMODEM, and ZMODEM capabilities.
  • Page 144 The interface your are using, and, if serial, the protocol The application and version you are using The emulation you are using Your printer firmware version (listed on status and start-up pages) 1 (800) 762-8894 Call for service information and maintenance pricing...
  • Page 145 United States/ QMS, Inc. Latin America One Magnum Pass Mobile, AL 36618 (334) 633-4300 Product Information: (800) 523-2696 OEM Information: (800) 631-2692 Consumables: (800) 777-7782 Fax: (334) 633-4866 E-mail: info@qms.com Latin America Fax: (334) 639-3347 Asia-Pacific QMS Asia-Pacific Melbourne 61 (3) 899 5777 Sydney 61 (2) 901 3235 Tokyo (81) (3) 3437 4030 Canada...

  • Page 147: Localtalk

    LocalTalk pinouts Serial pinouts IBM PC/XT, PC/AT, and Compatible pinouts Centronics pinouts...
  • Page 148 The table below gives the correct pinouts for the printer end of the 9- pin LocalTalk cable used to connect a computer and printer. A 9-to-8- pin adapter is included in the kit for the Macintosh end, if needed. Pin No.

  • Page 149: Ibm Pc/Xt, Pc/At, And Compatible Computers

    IBM PC/XT, PC/AT, and compatible computers. Printer (DB-25S) The following table describes the Centronics parallel interface cable that can be used with your printer. (See “Notes to the Centronics Par- allel Cable Pinouts Table” on the next page for more information.) Signal Pin No.
  • Page 150 To prevent noise effectively, these cables should be shielded and connected to the chassis of the system unit and printer, respectively. All interface conditions are based on TTL level. Both the rise and fall times of each signal must be less than 0.2 microseconds.

  • Page 151: Autowrap

    Index Accounting Accounting information on host 3-23 Copying accounting files 3-21 Dictionary file 3-11 Fields, description 3-13 File format description 3-12 File transfer protocol 3-23 Job accounting file 3-11 Paper accounting file 3-11 Status accounting file 3-11 Using the cp command 3-22 Administration menu Communications submenu 4-2 Disk Operations submenu 8-11...

  • Page 152: Parallel Communication

    Backup hard disk 8-17 Baud rate 4-7 BitReverse (CCITT command) 5-18 BlockEnd (CCITT command) 5-18 Buffer sizes 1-8 Buffers spooling 7-9 Cable pinouts Centronics parallel B-3 IBM PC/AT B-3 IBM PC/XT B-3 LocalTalk B-2 Serial B-2 Calibration page 6-2 CCITT Command syntax 5-17 Commands 5-17 CCITT commands 5-17...

  • Page 153: Esp Default Option

    Disk Operations submenu 8-11 Backup Hard Disk 8-17 Format Disk 8-16 Installing an emulation 8-12 Installing upgrades 1-15 Removing a printer option 8-15 Restore Disk 8-18 Display list 7-12 Do Error Handler 6-6 Do Sys Start 6-5 DPI (CCITT command) 5-19...

  • Page 154: Header Inputbin

    Reverse image 5-15 Scaling percent 5-15 IBM PC AT cable pinouts B-3 XT cable pinouts B-3 Identification Printer 1-8 Identifying hard disks 8-11 Ignore parity 4-8 ImageData (CCITT command) 5-20 ImagePosition (CCITT command) 5-20 ImageSize (CCITT command) 5-21 imPRESS 5-24...

  • Page 155: Point Sz 100Ths

    X-Origin Inset 5-9 Y-Origin Inset 5-9 LocalTalk interface Cable pinouts B-2 Maintenance Due message 8-8 Margins Lineprinter 5-13 MB Printer Mem 7-14 Memory 7-3 Allocation 1-8, 7-8 Clients 7-2, 7-3, 7-8 Dedicate to an interface 7-9 Definitions 7-3 Disk Cache 7-13...

  • Page 156: Qms World-Wide Offices

    PostScript font cache 7-10 PostScript heap 7-10 PostScript level 5-10 PostScript VM 7-10 PostScript wait timeout 4-3 Powersave mode 8-8 Printer identification 1-8 Printer registration 1-5 Printer setup 1-5 PS Font Cache Ranges 7-11 PS protocol 4-9, 4-13 PS wait timeout 4-3...

  • Page 157: Shipment Contents

    Emulations 8-15 Fonts 8-15 Printer options 8-15 Resolution 7-11, 8-8 Restore Defaults 8-9 Hard disk 8-18 Retain temporary 5-6 Return B-4 Reverse image 5-15 ROM 7-4 Rotate Duplex 8-7 Rotation (CCITT command) 5-23 Saving changes 1-14 Scalable fonts 5-6 Scaling percent 5-15...
  • Page 158 Timeouts Communications 4-3 Emulation 4-4 ESP 4-4 Job 4-4 PS wait 4-3 Trailer inputbin 6-4 Trailer page 6-3 Tray chaining 3-7 Troubleshooting QMS Customer Technical Assurance Tumble duplex 3-3 Typefaces 1-8 Typographic conventions 1-3 Upgrades, system software Installing 1-15 Using file transfer protocol 3-23 Vertical offset 8-3 Virtual disk 7-4 Virtual memory 7-5, 7-10...

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