TROY Group 100S manual Using Services, Introduction Available Services Predefined Command Strings

Appendix B Using Services

Introduction

Available Services

Predefined

Command

Strings

A service is a resource that can be accessed by computers that wish to print to the print server. The TROY PocketPro 100S print server provides the following predefined services (do a SHOW SERVICE command in the print server remote console to get a list of available services).

Service	Definition
TWC_xxxxxx_P1	Parallel port binary service
BINARY_P1	Parallel port binary service
TEXT_P1_TX	Parallel port TCP/IP text service (adds carriage return after each line feed)
POSTSCRIPT_P1	Parallel port PostScript service (switches PJL-compatible printer to PostScript mode)
PCL_P1	Parallel port PCL service (switches PJL-compatible printer to PCL mode)
TWC_xxxxxx_P1_AT	Parallel port AppleTalk service

The "xxxxxx" is the last six digits of the Ethernet address (for example, TWC_009C53_P1). Any of the services, not just the user-defined ones, can be modified to meet a user's particular requirements.

The TROY PocketPro 100S print server provides the powerful capability to customize any of the services to meet specific user requirements through the use of setup and reset strings. Such strings are printer command sequences that are sent to the printer before or after the print job. For example, you could define one of the services to provide landscape mode printing by defining a setup string that contains the appropriate command to put the printer into landscape mode.

The TROY PocketPro 100S print server provides several predefined strings for popular PCL, PostScript, and PJL (the Page Job Language used by new Hewlett-Packard and other printers) commands. These include (do a SHOW SERVER STRING command in the remote console to see the available strings):

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