Xerox FreeFlow manual

Specifying print format parameters

–Tab widths: When running a tab stock job, you must not include the width of the tab when specifying the PAPERSIZE command. However, you must include the width of the tab when specifying the stock size on the print server user interface windows or on the printer control console.

–Switching to tab stock during a job: The stockname form of a stock specification must be used in the following instances: a FEED= DJDE; RAUX, RFEED, or COVER commands; or a selection from the user interface stock windows.

–Recognizing tab stock: The system processes tabs by referring to the current stockname at the time that the page is formatted for output.

Example: If the page satisfies the RAUX criteria and AUX is specified as a stockname in the ordered stock statement, the system recognizes this as a tab stock. Having recognized it, the system then adds n scan lines (width of the tab) to the paper size in the slow scan direction for portrait tabs, or in the fast scan direction for landscape tabs.

–Orientation: The P and L (portrait and landscape) parameters of the OSTK statement allow you to specify either orientation. The only one that is supported by the FreeFlow Print Server LCDS systems is portrait (P) is the default condition. If you select landscape (L) and you load the tab stock with the tab at the right edge of a landscape oriented page, this combination does not run due to jams induced by skew.

Example: Job 1 starts with Tab 1 (located in the upper right corner of a portrait page), and Job 2 must start with Tab 5 (located in the lower right corner of the portrait page). The number of tabs Job 1 will use is 2.

In order to run the job in succession, you must code the JSL with MOD=5 and POS=1 for Job 1 and MOD=5 and POS=5 for Job 2. The system does keep track of the last tab position in tray 2 at the end of Job 1. Upon starting Job 2, the printer purges Tab 3 and Tab 4 because Job 2 starts with POS=5 and Job1 used Tab 1 and Tab 2.

–At the time the system makes validity checks for BEGIN values and graphic positioning, the system cannot determine if the current physical page is tab stock.

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