Using Logical Printers To Customize Your Printing - Axis 5400 User Manual

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Using Logical Printers to Customize your Printing

The AXIS 5400 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 5400:
• 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
• 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 up using any Java enabled Web browser
or by directly editing the config file.
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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