Toshiba GL-1020 manual Setting Up Raw Jobs, Setting Up Fonts for PCL Jobs

Setting Up Raw Jobs

A raw job is a file you wish to print directly to the copier without using either of the printer drivers (PCL or PSL). When printing from an application, the print command sends the job to the driver. The driver processes the job creating PCL or PSL commands understood by the target printer.

If a document already contains the PCL or PSL commands, you can send it directly to the controller. This is a common practice in AS400, Unix and service bureau environments.

For example, printing using the printer driver to a file instead of to a device creates a PostScript- or PCL-ready document. To send this document to the printer you could use the MS-DOS copy command, such as:

copy test.txt \\twriter20\dssc

This command sends the raw file “test.txt” directly to a controller identified as “twriter20” in the “dssc” queue.

1Click the drop-down menus to set these raw job options: Duplex Printing, Paper Size, Paper Type, Orientation, Stapling and Output Tray.

2If these are the only options you need to set, scroll down to the end of the page and click Save.

Setting Up Fonts for PCL Jobs

You can set three font-related options for jobs you would otherwise print using a PCL driver: Pitch (or width), Point Size, and Font Number. The defaults for these three are:

￿10 pts. wide

￿12 pts. line spacing

￿0, which prints using Courier

Note: These options are not necessary to set for PostScript- ready files.

1If the document was created using a fixed-width, scalable font, the PCL Font Pitch drop-down menu sets the width.

The default is 10 characters per inch.

2Use the PCL Font Point Size drop-down menu to set the height of the font in printer’s points.

Minimum size is four (4) points; maximum, 999.75 points.

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