Printing
ASCII and the PS or PCL decomposers
The Xerox Freeflow Print Server software automatically wraps ASCII files with a predefined set of PostScript code and sends the data through the PostScript decomposer. Unfortunately, this predefined formatting does not always meet customer ASCII printing needs and there are no “knobs” to change the formatting within PostScript.
As an alternative, ASCII files can be identified as PCL and sent through the PCL decomposer. The PCL decomposer does provide some additional capabilities that can be used to modify ASCII files as desired.
To force ASCII files to use the PCL decomposer, change the file format in Job Manager. This can also be done by changing the queue default document property from ASCII to PCL.
setpclcontrol utility
The setpclcontrol utility offers the following user controls:
•Set the site default for the PCL decomposer line termination. Setting these options allows both native PCL files and ASCII streams forced through the PCL decomposer to be conditioned with various combinations of carriage returns (CR), line feeds (LF), and form feeds (FF). Mainframe and UNIX environments typically require some form of CR/LF/FF adjustment.
•Set a custom paper size to map to the PCL escape sequence <esc>&101A (which denotes “print on custom stock size”).
HP printers generally respond to this command by imaging an area of 11.7 x 17.7 inches and then printing the image, centered, on whatever stock is supplied by the operator. The setpclcontrol utility allows you to specify a single image and paper size to correspond with this escape sequence.
NOTE: This utility is now covered on the Xerox FreeFlow Print
Server interface. Click the PCL tab and make selections to Line
Termination.
setlp/lprcopycount utility
The setlpcopycount utility allows the Xerox Freeflow Print Server customer to modify how the lp/lpr gateway handles a copy count of one. Beginning with DocuSP version 1.41.06, the default setting ignores a copy count of one placed on the job by the lp/lpr
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