Black Box 5250 manual Remote Emulator Card, Command, Function

5250 REMOTE EMULATOR CARD

Command	Function
¬Ex	Sends an ASCII ESC command to the printer (HP mode
only).	Forces true 6-LPI printing (HP mode only).
¬TY
¬TN	Stops forcing true 6-LPI printing (HP mode only).
¬I	Makes Card ignore all formatting commands from the host.
¬S	Makes Card stop ignoring formatting commands from the
host.

You can send an ESC (escape) print-control command to the printer with the ¬Ex command (HP mode only); x stands for a sequence of characters that forms the rest of the command. For example, ¬E(s3B would begin bold printing; see an HP operator’s manual for a list of the (sXX commands.

When in HP mode, the printer may compress line spacing to fit 66 lines onto a page. This might be undesirable at times, especially with preprinted forms that must align correctly. In these cases, the ¬TY command prevents the printer from compressing the line spacing, and ¬TN permits it again.

Use the ¬I and ¬S commands to remove unwanted host commands from a print file. For example, when you print with forms-generating software, the host recognizes the files as text files and formats them with unwanted carriage returns and line feeds. Placing the ¬I at the end of a line and ¬S at the start of the next line causes the 5250 Remote Emulator Card to remove the host’s carriage returns and line feeds and send only the data to the printer.

8.4.3COMMAND PASS-THROUGH

The command-pass-through (hex-transparency) feature gives you access to all of a printer’s built-in features, even if these features are not normally available through the host software. With the command-pass-through feature, you can place printer-specific command sequences into your document, and the 5250 Remote Emulator Card will recognize the sequences and “pass the commands through” to the printer. Take these steps to use this feature:.

1.Find the command (control codes) for your desired print feature in the printer’s manual.

2.Convert the control codes to hexadecimal.

3.Type the delimiter &% (or any custom delimiter configured as described in Section 6.3.3) into the document at the point in the text

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