Black Box Remote Emulator Card, 5250 manual Escape Commands

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

For example, when the ProCollection® cartridge is loaded in the printer, the codes embedded in the following sentence will cause the word “saves” to print in bold Helvetica® instead of plain Courier:

On screen: Quality ¬Q45 saves ¬Q85 you time and money.

Prints as: Quality saves you time and money.

NOTE

The host may send the original font code to the printer at the beginning of each page. If this happens, put a font-change command at the beginning of each page of the document.

If the font-change command changes the pitch, the host may continue to format each line with the original font-ID pitch. Text Management/38 and some other word-processing programs don’t let you specify more than one font ID per line.

Font IDs and font-change commands for the fonts and font cartridges used by the 3812 and 5219 printer emulations are listed in Appendix C.

Format font-change commands this way:

•3812 Printer Emulation: Enter font-change commands for 3812 emulation using the format ¬Qn, where ¬ is a “logical not” (Shift 6), Q indicates a font change, and n is the typestyle number (font ID).

•5219 Printer Emulation: Enter either of two types of font-change commands that you can use with 5219 emulation:

¬QHL selects fonts from HP font cartridges: ¬ is a “logical not” (Shift 6), Q indicates a font change, H indicates the HP font cartridge, and L is one or more uppercase letters that indicate a particular font in the cartridge;

¬QIn selects fonts from IBM font cartridges: ¬ is a “logical not” (Shift 6), Q indicates a font change, I indicates the IBM font cartridge, and n is the typestyle number (font ID).

8.4.2ESCAPE COMMANDS

You can also insert commands into your document that perform other functions, such as enabling true 6-LPI printing, causing the Card to ignore format commands from the host, and sending the printer an ASCII ESC command. These commands, shown below, are similar to the font-change commands.

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