Logical Printers
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Section 11
Logical Printers
The print server 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
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.
The default logical printers settings are such that PR1—PR4 cause no
change to the flow of print data, while PR5—PR8 add CR to LF control
characters:
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 86.
Notes:
Logical Printer
Changes to data
PR1
no change
PR2
no change
PR3
no change
PR4
no change
PR5
add CR to LF
PR6
add CR to LF
PR7
add CR to LF
PR8
add CR to LF
• 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 print
server’s parameters.
