Black Box PC118C-R2 manual Rotation

HPIIISi TWINAX CARD

6.4.8PRINT ORIENTATION

When operating the printer and the HPIIISi Twinax Card in IBM 3812-1 emulation mode, the print orientation of the host document or report is determined by a variety of factors. These factors are, in order of their impact on the final print orientation:

1.Page Rotation specified in the print file of a data-processing document or in the document-format menu of a word-processing document.

2.The Card’s Automatic Print Orientation (APO) setting.

3.The Card’s Print Orientation setting.

As you read the following subsections, refer to Figure 6-1 for an illustration of the print-orientation logic.

6.4.8.A Page Rotation

Degrees of page rotation can be specified through the print file of a data- processing document or in the document-format menu of a word- processing document. See Section 6.4.9 for a description of how to access the print file and the document-format menu. The available settings are 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees and AUTO (AS/400 only). The print file also offers DEVD and COR (AS/400 only).

a.With 0, 90, 180, and 270˚, you can specify the desired rotation directly from the host.

b.The COR setting will always print COR, unless the print quality (AS/400 and S/38) is set to NLQ or STD, or Text (S/36) is set to YES. If the page rotation is set to COR and print quality/text is one of these settings, the print job will print in portrait orientation in the requested font.

c.With the DEVD and AUTO settings, the host does not influence the print orientation. Rather, the print orientation is determined by the settings on the Card.

6.4.8.B Automatic Print Orientation

If no page rotation was specified by the host, the HPIIISi Twinax Card’s Automatic Print Orientation (APO) feature is the first setting used to determine the final print orientation. This feature automatically rotates print jobs with dimensions equal to or smaller than 8.5" x 14" to portrait or landscape orientation.

1.With the APO feature ON, the Card first checks the dimen-sions of the host print job. If the print job is larger than

8.5" x 14", the Card cannot fit the print job on one page. In this case the orientation of the print job is determined by the Card’s print- orientation setting (BLOCK 3).

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