Intermate 100 b) String Substitution, How Strings Are Written

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Processing Facilities: Logical Printers
combined printing and copying facilities.
“String before” could, for example, select a paper cassette,
select an output bin, set the page orientation, and so on.
“String after” would typically revoke the effects of “string
before”, but can also be used to provoke a page feed at the
end of the job, so that there is a separator page, and so on.
Each logical printer can have one “string before” and/or one
“string after”. Each string can contain many commands.
b) String Substitution
A “substitution string” actually consists of a pair (a set) of
strings, one “input” and one “output”. You can define up to16
substitution strings, assigning any of them to any of the 8 logi-
cal printers. This is typically done in order to print characters
from another code table, translate characters to escape
sequences, call macros and so on.
Each logical printer can use any—all— or none of the substitu-
tion strings you have configured.
How Strings Are Written
You must write substitution strings as well as “string before”
and “string after” in a printer control language such as HP PCL.
Detailed information about this is found in
“String Before and
String After” [page155]
, “[Substitution Strings]” [page 157] , and
“String Syntax” [page239] .