Printronix ANSI Printer manual Overview, Ansi Emulation Default Settings

2 ANSI Emulation

Overview

This chapter describes the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) host control codes that are supported on your printer. “Emulation” refers to the ability of a printer to execute the commands of a particular printer control language. A printer control language is the coding system used to convey, manipulate, and print data. In this manual, the terms “emulation”, “printer protocol”, and “printer control language” are synonymous.

In the ANSI emulation mode, the printer can print files coded for the ANSI printer control language. To select the ANSI emulation as the active printer emulation, refer to your User’s Manual.

The ANSI emulation provides many adjustable parameters. The default parameter values for this emulation are shown in Table 1. You can modify these parameter values in two ways:

•The ANSI host control codes. A set of ANSI control code commands can be sent to the printer from an attached host computer via the printer I/O port. This chapter describes these ANSI control code commands.

•The printer configuration menus. You can modify a subset of the ANSI emulation parameters using the configuration menus and the control panel keys, as described in your User’s Manual.

NOTE: A parameter value set by a host control code overrides a value set from the printer control panel.

Configuration values selected from the menus or via host control codes can be saved to memory so that they will not be lost when you power off the printer. The menu selection for saving a configuration to memory is described in your User’s Manual.

ANSI Emulation Default Settings

The ANSI factory settings are shown in Table 1 on page 24. Table 2 on page 25 lists additional factory settings for parameters provided by the LinePrinter Plus® formatting menus. (The EMULATION menu options are described in the User’s Manual). Host control codes can override many of the settings for these menu options.

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