
NetGear Print Server Manual
Logical Printer
The logical printer screen is used to map different logical printer ports to printers attached to the Print Server. A logical printer port is used to specify a set of printer control commands to be sent to a printer for every print job sent through the logical port. Figure
Figure 3-8 Logical Port Screen
Logical Port Fields
Logical PortSelects the logical port to be configured. Three logical ports are available.
| Get Data | Click this button to display the saved configuration parameter for the selected logical port. |
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| Provides the control character string to send to the printer before the first character of the job is sent to the |
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| printer. One example of such an application would be switching to landscape mode when printing to the logical |
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| port. The string is made up of the hexadecimal code of the corresponding ASCII characters, as in these |
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| ASCII = [Esc]&0O | |
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| Hexadecimal = 1B266C304F | |
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| ASCII=[Esc]&1O |
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| Hexadecimal = 1B266C314F |
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| An ASCII to hexadecimal number conversion table is include in the appendix. |
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| Provides the control character string to send to the printer after the last character of the job is sent to the |
| (Hex) | printer. The character string must be in hexadecimal format as illustrated in the String Before Job example |
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| Convert LF | If checked, adds a carriage return (CR) every time the line feed (LF) character code is received by the print |
| to CR/LF | server when print data is sent to this logical printer port. Generally this should be unchecked. It may be needed |
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Save
Cancel
Save:
After the configuration, click on ‘Save’ button to save the value permanently.
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