IBM 6500 manual Trailer String

Chapter 3 Print Model Configuration

Trailer String

Define an escape sequence to be sent to the printer after each print job. For example, you may want to send a sequence to add a formfeed so you don't have to manually press the formfeed button on the printer. You may also want to tell the printer to reset itself in case you have set a header string which tells the printer to do something special with the job. You can specify up to three separate sequences per trailer string. The Ethernet Interface executes them in order from top to bottom. If specifying fewer than three sequences, be sure to start at the top leaving undefined fields at the bottom.

The most common sequences are listed on the form:

•PCL Reset - tells the printer to reset itself once the data completes

•End of Transmission (EOT) - tells the printer to force the end of the job

•Formfeed - tells the printer to do a formfeed at the end of the data.

Printer Configuration

Specify a printer configuration number to be loaded before processing the print job. This ability to associate a printer configuration to a logical printer model allows you to define up to eight unique and independent printer personalities in a single printer. Using this feature, you effectively have eight different printers in one.

To associate a printer configuration to the currently selected destination queue, just select the desired printer configuration number from the drop down list. Once a printer configuration has been associated with a destination queue, any print job sent to that destination queue name will cause the printer to load the associated printer configuration before processing the print job.

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