Xerox Printer Setting up the form, Form XEROX2, Resolution is 300 SPI, Paper Size is Usletter

HOST FORMS DESCRIPTION LANGUAGE

Setting up the form

Follow these steps to set up the basic elements of your form:

1.Use the FORM command to specify both a unique form name that identifies the form to the system and a resolution.

In this example, the form name is XEROX2 and the resolution is 300 SPI.

FORM XEROX2, RESOLUTION IS 300 SPI;

2.Specify the physical paper size.

This example specifies U.S. letter size:

PAPER SIZE IS USLETTER;

3.Specify the grid unit and form origin. The form origin should coincide with variable data origin and form grid units should correspond with the character and line spacing of the variable data.

The example below shows the long form of the command using FMT1 values:

GRID UNIT IS 13.6 CPI 8.1 LPI ORIGIN .18 IN .66 IN; This example shows the short form of the command: GRID FMT1;

You do not need to use the LANDSCAPE/PORTRAIT command to specify page orientation and virtual page size if you specify a predefined format in the GRID command.

4.Specify the fonts you want to use.

In this example, you specify a large font (UN214A) for the report title, a smaller font (UN107A) for the column headings, and a very small font (UN104A) for the form identifier:

FONTS UN214A, UN107A, UN104A;

When you refer to these fonts in later descriptive commands, the first font specified (UN214A) is identified as FONT 1, the second as FONT 2, and the third as FONT 3.

This example shows entering all of these setup commands in their long form:

FORM XEROX2 RESOLUTION IS 300 SPI; PAPER SIZE IS USLETTER;

GRID UNIT IS 13.6 CPI 8.1 LPI ORIGIN .18 IN .66 IN; FONTS UN214A, UN107A, UN104A;

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