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This is the actual label to be printed. It may contain up to 4096 8-bit characters. The default value for
this parameter is the null string which means that no label is applied. Special characters are supported
which are delimited by the % character. The pair of the % character and the special character count as
two characters towards the maximum string length of the label. See below for a definition of the special
characters. If a % character is actually desired, it may be escaped with a second % character
immediately following it. For example, the string:
"We want a %% here"
is rendered as:
"We want a % here"
New line, line feed, and tab characters are also supported within label strings as normal. The following
special characters may be supported in future releases:
• %d - Prints the date in "month, date, year" format in the selected date format
• %n - Prints the job's name if available, or a null string.
• %p - Prints the job's current page number as a decimal digit.
• %t - Prints the print time in the format 24 hour format.
• %c - Prints a new-line character.
• %x - Prints a double-quote (") character.
An example of the usage of this string is below:
"Page %p of job %n was printed at %t, %d"
This results in the following string printed on the first page of the plot:
"Page 1 of job HarrysJob was printed at 14:30:29, 5/20/1997"
There is also a second category of special characters supported by the labeling feature. These fields
have non-null values only when lpr is used over TCP/IP to transmit the job to the server. This feature is
used for installations which are not able to insert specific AccXES HP-PJL job control language into
each job, but still desire some labeling. The LABELSTRING default value can be set to a string
containing these special characters, and thereafter, plots will be automatically labeled without specific
job control syntax.
Not all of the fields are supported for all lpr implementations – details depend on the operating system
of the client running lpr. If lpr is not used to transmit the file but one of the following special characters
is contained in LABELSTRING, then this field will be mapped to a 0 length string. The special
characters enabled with lpr are:
• %q - Prints the lpr job queue name.
• %a - Prints the lpr host address.
• %h - Prints the lpr host name.
• %f - Prints the job's filename on the host.
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