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Emulations and Printer Drivers
When a printer acts like another printer, it is said to emulate that printer. Your printer can emulate an Epson FX-100, IBM Proprinter XL, or DEC LA210 printer.
You can switch between emulations, as detailed in "Changing Emulations" that follows.
When you use a specific computer application (MS Windows, WordPerfect, Lotus 1-2-3, etc.) to print on a specific printer (Epson FX- 100, IBM Proprinter XL, etc.) you must select a specific printer driver. The application's printer driver not only allows you to print on that printer, it also allows you to select such things as print quality (NLQ, draft), normal vs bold print, characters per inch, character sets, and others features and options available with the emulated printer. These printer driver selections override the configuration menu default selections.
Remember: If you change the emulation of your printer, you must
change the selected printer driver in your computer application. Consult the manuals provided with your application.
