Table 4-14LPD Queues tab settings (continued)

Item

Description

 

 

Queue Type

Processing instruction for the queue. Choose from these four queue types:

 

● RAW No processing. Treats the data in a raw queue as a print job that is already

 

formatted in PCL, PostScript, or HP-GL/2, and sends it to the printer without

 

modification. (Prepend or Append strings are added to the job in the appropriate

 

position.)

 

● TEXT Carriage return added. Treats data in text queues as unformatted or ASCII text,

 

and adds a carriage return to each line before sending it to the printer.

 

● AUTO (Automatic) Uses auto-sensing to determine whether the print data is sent as

 

raw or text.

 

● BINPS (Binary PostScript) Instructs the PostScript interpreter to interpret the print job

 

as Binary PostScript data.

 

 

Default Queue Name

Queue name to use if the queue specified for a print job is unknown. By default, this is

 

AUTO.

 

 

String Name

Name of a character string to use in the prepend/append queue table. Enter up to 32

 

alphanumeric characters. You can define up to eight character strings for use in LPD

 

queues.

 

 

Value

Define the value for the associated string name used in the prepend/append queue table.

 

This value is sent to the printer before or after the print data (as appropriate).

 

Character values can be in the extended ASCII range of 0 to 255 (hex 00 to FF). You can

 

specify a non-printing character using its hexadecimal value by entering a backslash (\)

 

followed by two hexadecimal characters. For example, to enter the escape character (hex

 

1B), type “\1B”. If your string includes the back slash character itself, specify it as “\5C”. Enter

 

up to 240 characters in this field. The characters in the field are checked for hexadecimal

 

values, converted if necessary, and stored internally. The maximum number of characters

 

stored internally in the string is 80; any characters that exceed this are discarded.

 

 

Instructions for setting up an LPD printer are different for different operating systems. See LPD printing on page 165 for details.

Example To reset an LPD printer at the start of each print job, you can create a print queue named clear_printer that issues a PCL reset command (Escape-E) at the beginning of each job.

First, set up the print queue:

a.Name the string: Type reset_string into the String Name field in row 1.

b.Define the string's value: Type “\1BE” (Escape-E) into the Value field in row 1. (Alternatively, you could type “\1B\45”.)

c.Name the queue: Type clear_printer into the Queue Name field in row 5.

d.Set up the prepend string: Type reset_string into the Prepend String field in row 5.

e.Leave the Append String field in row 5 blank.

f.Set the queue type: Set the Queue Type field in row 5 to RAW.

Then, set up the printer to use the queue, making sure to specify clear_printer when asked for a queue name. (For details about setting up the printer, see LPD printing on page 165.) After that, any

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