Black Box PC124C Installation Manual page 55

LASER CARDS FOR HP 4000 TWINAX AND COAX PRINTERS
2. A P
UTOMATIC RINT
If no page rotation was specified on the host, the interface's Automatic Print
Orientation (APO) feature is the first setting to determine the final print
orientation. This feature automatically rotates print jobs with dimensions of 8.5 x
14 inches or smaller to portrait or landscape orientation.
a. With the APO feature ON, the interface first checks the dimensions of the
host print job. If the print job is larger than 8.5 x 14 inches, the interface
cannot fit the print job on one page. In this case the orientation of the print
job is determined by the print-orientation setting on the interface (Block 3 in
Figure 6-1).
b. If the dimensions of the print job are 8.5 x 14 inches or smaller, the interface
compares the width to the height and automatically rotates the print job to
portrait if the height is larger than the width or landscape if the width is
larger than the height.
The dimensions of a word processing document are specified directly through
the document format menu. The dimensions of a data-processing report are
calculated in the following manner:
Width = Page Width (in number of columns) / CPI
Length = Page Length (in number of lines) / LPI
3. P -O
RINT RIENTATION
The interface's print-orientation settings determine the orientation of the host
document/report AFTER the host's page-rotation setting AND the interface's APO
setting have been obeyed.
The available print-orientation settings are portrait, landscape, and two COR
options. The COR feature rotates documents to landscape orientation and
compresses the font as needed to fit the complete document on a standard 8.5" x
14" page. This allows the user to print a report initially designed to fit on 14
11" green bar paper onto a standard letter or legal size page without redesigning
the report.
When used together, the APO and COR features can be a powerful tool to print
host jobs in portrait, landscape, or if required in landscape with reduced font
(COR) without user intervention.
The first COR option is not a true IBM 3812 emulation. This COR setting was
added to give the user a more straightforward way of obtaining COR. The COR
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