10ZiG Technology Limited 310 CE, Basic Operation Manual

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Printer type is limited to built in drivers, select the closest match. If in doubt, try Generic/Text
Only or use Host Print Transform.
To edit the code page select edit to the right of Code Page.
Code page is the traditional IBM term used for a specific character encoding table: a mapping in
which a sequence of bits, usually a single octet representing integer values 0 through 255, is asso-
ciated with a specific character.
5250/3270 communication is encoded using EBCDIC. The code page is a lookup table which
converts EBCDIC to ASCII to display and/or print the data.
For printer sessions, sometimes the AS400 applications will send special EBCDIC characters to
control the printer. (ie - specifically for barcodes). In this case it may be necessary to modify the
transcode table to select the proper ASCII code required by the printer.
For instance an application may send an EBCDIC 'B0' as the start barcode command. By default
this is mapped to an ASCII 0x5e - '^'. Sometimes the barcode printer will require an ASCII 0x24 -
'$'. In this case you can edit the transcode table entry for EBCDIC 'B0' and change it from 0x5e to
0x24.
When editing the transcode table the vertical rows are the MSB of the EBCDIC code, while the
horizontal cols are the LSB of the EBCDIC code. So for EBCDIC 0xB0, go to the B0 row and the
00 column.