Configuration Possibilities
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Logical Printers for Customized Printing
The AXIS 5570e has a powerful facility for altering the print data. This
means that your desired print format can be realized on any type of
printer. The following actions can be invoked from the print server:
•
The character set can be changed to suit the printer
•
Strings can be added before and after the print data
•
Strings within the print data can be substituted
•
ASCII to PostScript conversion
•
Redirection of print data to another printer if the printer is busy
•
Hex Dump mode to assist with printing problems
•
See
Digital Copier Support
, on page 202.
If any of these actions are required, a Logical Printer is used to change the
print data before being sent to the printer port. There are eight logical
printers (PR1-PR8) that can be set up to filter the print data.
Each logical printer can be set via the print server’s internal Web pages:
Open a Web browser, enter the IP address of the print server in the
Location/Address field and select
Admin | Logical Printers
.
The logical printers can also be set up by editing the
config
file. See
“Editing the config file”
on page 134.
Notes:
Character Set
Conversion
A common problem in a multiple host environment is that different hosts
use different ASCII character sets. As a result of this, language specific
characters (such as å ü ô ñ) are sometimes printed incorrectly.
The AXIS 5570e solution to this problem is to assign a character set
conversion filter to a logical printer, and then link that logical printer to
the host causing the problem.
You select your desired conversion filter by setting the
Character Set
Conversion
(PRx_CSET.) parameter. The output from the conversion filter
is always IBM PC Set 2 (Code Page 437), and this is the character set the
printer must be set up for.
• The examples in this section describe how you can configure the available logical printers
using a standard Web browser. If you want to set them directly by editing the
config
file,
just enter the values for the corresponding parameters.
• The examples should only be viewed as suggestions how to configure the logical printers.
You should, of course, configure them according to the needs of your network.
• In the Parameter List chapter of this manual, you can find a complete list of the AXIS
5570e parameters.
