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PQ-8P, PQ-8S
5.7 Laser Printer Operation
The PQ-8 lets you emulate an ASCII
laser printer as an IBM 3812 printer.
This feature-rich emulation is
automatically active when you select
the HP PCL output protocol. You
can also run an ASCII laser printer
under an IBM 5256 emulation. The
following section describes how to
access the many features of emul-
ation of the IBM 3812 printer.
The IBM 3812-1 printer is a laser-
type printer that has font-changing
capability, plus text-rotation and
compression features called
Automatic Print Orientation (APO)
and Computer Output Reduction
(COR).
The PQ-8’s emulation of the 3812
provides bolding, underlining,
superscripts, and subscripts by
recognizing the host commands
for these features in the document.
A shadow print for bolding is
performed automatically on fixed-
pitch fonts. For proportionally
spaced (typographic) fonts, the
user must specify the font that is
to be printed.
Like an IBM 5219 printer, the
3812 printer is configured with a
default font ID on the host.
Configure the most commonly used
font as the system default, then
change as necessary with a printer
override or OCL command.
Table 5-1 shows which fonts
can be used as system defaults for
a System/36 or System/38 host.