Black Box 5250 manual Layout of the Printer-Control Screen, Host Status Format Controls PC Printer

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

7.5.1THE PRINTER-CONTROL SCREEN

The Printer-Control Screen controls host printing sent to the attached printer. The PC is unaware that printing is taking place, even in a DOS session, host printing can continue without interruption. However, DOS printing does not continue in a host session.

Certain printer functions are controlled from the Printer-Control Screen. While in emulation, hotkey to the session assigned to the printer. The Printer-Control Screen will appear; it’s divided into three (3) sections, as shown in Table 7-2 on the next page and described on pages 57 through 59.

Table 7-2. Layout of the Printer-Control Screen

1 Options	F1	Start/Stop Printer
	F2	Truncate/Wrap-around
	F3	Line Feed
	F4	Form Feed
	F5	Cancel Print Job
	F6	User Override of Pitch, Quality, etc.
	F7	Host Control of Pitch, Quality, etc.
	F8	Re-Initialize Printer
	F9	Buffer Print
	F10	Assign Printer to DOS/Host/Auto
	Shift F1	17 to 15 Pitch Correction
2 Printer is attached to:		Host DOS Auto
Host Status		Format Controls	PC Printer
Ready		User Override Active	Selected
System Available		Host Control Active	Paper Out
		Buffer Print Mode	Busy
		Truncate	Fault
		17 to 15 Pitch Fix	Check Printer
3		Session: 5XX6XXX

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