I-O 5250 Printing - I/O TC5000 User Manual

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I-O 5250 Printing

I-O 5250 Printing for Thin Client is a simple to use IBM AS/400, iSeries or eServer i5 host printing

emulation. Connection to the IBM host is accomplished over the Ethernet link using TN5250e (a

TCP/IP printing protocol created for use with IBM AS/400, iSeries or eServer i5 hosts).

Configuration is required only on the thin client as the IBM host will automatically create a print device,

writer and spooler. The IBM host will either create its own name for the printer session, or you may

setup a name of your choice. However, the IBM host must be configured to use TCP/IP, TN5250e and

set for automatic device configuration.

With TN5250e, the IBM host recognizes only one type of printer device, a 3812 (a laser printer).

However, I-O's 5250 Printer Emulation for thin clients contains a 3812 to 4214 conversion capability.

This allows not only laser printers, but dot-matrix and thermal printers to be attached to the thin client

and appear to the IBM host as a 3812 laser printer.

Print jobs sent from the IBM host are issued in IBM's proprietary EBCDIC character set and use SNA

Character String (SCS) command structure. The I-O 5250 Printer Emulation converts EBCDIC to ASCII

and the SCS command structure to the printer's command structure (PCL, Epson, and Proprinter). The

I-O 5250 Printer Emulation product and be customized to change the host print attributes if needed

(CPI, page orientation, etc.)

I-O also has included a number of advanced features in the I-O 5250 Printer Emulation. These include

the ability to send printer specific commands as part of the SCS data stream that the IBM host does not

know the printer is capable of performing. Other features include I-O's bar code language, graphing

language, and even color support.

I-O 5250 Printing emulation can be configured with the following features:

Printer sessions supported

Printer emulations supported

3812 to 4214 SCS command conversion

Printer control screen

Command Pass-Thru™

Computer Output Reduction (COR)

Auto Print Orientation (APO)

Printer overrides host control option

Paper size control

Orientation

End of Line control

EBCDIC to ASCII translation

Parallel port connection

Serial port connection

USB port connection

Customizable Telnet port number

Host status indicator

Printer status indicator

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