Black Box 5250, Remote Emulator Card manual Command Language

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

of these commands from the Card’s command language on the first line of the document:

¬D0 for simplex printing

¬D1 for landscape-duplex printing

¬D2 for portrait-duplex printing

If they are not on the first line, the commands will not become active until the following page. When the printer receives the printing command, it will do all printing in that mode until another printing command is received. In other words, if the printer is most often in simplex mode and is printing in the duplex mode, be sure to put a simplex command at the end of the document to return the printer to simplex mode. Envelope printing between documents won’t change the printer’s mode.

On some duplex printing, if the last page is blank on the back side, the information for the last page may remain in the printer until the next printing job is received. To print the last page, take the printer off-line by pressing the ONLINE button, then press the FORM FEED button to print the last page. Put the printer back on-line by pressing the ONLINE button again.

NOTE

Duplexing is supported in word-processing applications on the AS/400, but the AS/400 does not support duplex printing for data processing.

8.4 The Command Language

The 5250 Remote Emulator Card responds to a command language that consists of special character sequences you can place in your documents. The Card recognizes these sequences and sends corresponding codes to the printer to control the printer’s output. You can use these commands in either data-processing or word-processing documents.

The Card’s command language consists of three types of commands: font-change commands, escape commands, and command-pass-through commands. These are described in the next three sections.

8.4.1FONT-CHANGE COMMANDS

To change fonts using font-change commands, type the font-change command into the document at the place where the font change is to take effect. The command is immediately active in the document; the Card prints the specified font until it encounters the next font-change command.

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