Xerox 701P40211 Ascii and PCL Printing Utility, Impact on DocuSP printers, Setpclcontrol Utility

PrintingSystem Guide

Table 5-1.

Event			Limited FIFO	Limited FIFO
Sequence	Job ABC	Job XYZ	Enabled	Disabled
4	Still “Receiving Data”	“Pending”		Job 2 prints
				first
5	“Pending”	Still “Pending”	Job 1 prints
			first

ASCII and PCL Printing Utility

ASCII printing within various environments results in output that is not always formatted as desired. Unfortunately, there is no "standard" method for printing ASCII files. ASCII is a character set and is not a Page Description Language. Therefore, ASCII files do not contain format commands nor is there a de facto standard for ASCII formatting. However, users often have the requirement to match a specific format. The utility below helps enable this formatting flexibility along with the feature in Queue Manager that enables the ability to select the default document format.

Impact on DocuSP printers

The DocuSP 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 print 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:

5-4 Common Controller