Appendix; Software Considerations; Dos; Form Feeds - Rena DA-590 Operation Manual

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Here are a few of the basics regarding printing to the RENA DA-590 inkjet printer.

• The DA-590 is an ASCII printer. This means that it expects to receive ASCII text

information from a program.

• If fonts are sent to the DA-590 using the appropriate printer driver, the printer will print the

font as a graphic. Graphic information is very voluminous and takes a very long time to

download to the printer. The through-put of the printer will be reduced enormously.

• Sending a margin with the data will add the margin to that programmed in the printer menu.

• The DA-590 will only print in portrait orientation. The printing may be inverted 180°.

• Landscape printing can only be accomplished by sending graphic information to the printer.

For DOS programs try to select printer drivers such as DOS/TEXT, Void/Null Codes,

STANDARD Printer, TTY, Universal printer, Plain Vanilla, ASCII or anything else that seems

not to be for any particular printer. Do not use a printer driver such as Epson FX or IBM

Proprinter or HP Laserjet. These drivers will generally confuse the DA-590 printer.

The best format to use is a simple Letter, Document or Report. You may set up your page

layout to be any size page that will hold an address. Always zero out all of your margins. Any

margins that you send from your program will be added on to the margins set up in the printer.

Do not try to send an envelope format except from specialized mailing software programs.

Envelope formats from Windows® and DOS programs generally expect you to be printing

using a laser or DeskJet printer and send out data in a landscape format that the DA-590

cannot understand.

The DA-590 needs to know where the end of an address is so that it can eject the piece and

feed in the next piece. There are several ways that a form feed may be achieved. First we will

discuss DOS programs and later, Windows® programs.

Most DOS programs (with the exception of specialized mailing programs such as Mail Manager

2000, ArcList and ProSort for DOS), do not send out a form feed that a RENA printer will

understand. Generally speaking, for DOS programs, you will have to create a form feed using

one of the methods described on the following page.

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