Axis Communications 5400 user manual Using Logical Printers to Customize your Printing

88 Section 8: Setting Up - UNIX AXIS 5400 User’s Manual

Using Logical Printers to Customize your Printing

The AXIS 5400 has a powerful facility for altering the print data. This means that your desired print format can be realized on any type of printer. The following actions can be invoked from the AXIS 5400:

•The character set can be changed to suit the printer

•Strings can be added before and after the print data

•Strings within the print data can be substituted

•ASCII to PostScript conversion

•Hex Dump mode to assist with printing problems

If any of these actions are required, a Logical Printer is used to change the print data before being sent to the printer port. There are eight logical printers (PR1-PR8) that can be set up to filter the print data.

The default logical printers settings are such that PR1-PR4 cause no change to the flow of print data, while PR5-PR8 add CR to LF control characters:

UNIX

Logical Printer	Changes to data
PR1	no change
PR2	no change
PR3	no change
PR4	no change
PR5	add CR to LF
PR6	add CR to LF
PR7	add CR to LF
PR8	add CR to LF

Each logical printer can be set up using any Java enabled Web browser or by directly editing the config file.