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2.
Make sure you have defined your printer correctly in the software
program you are using (refer to the manuals for the software and
printer).
3.
Reinitialize the printer. You can set up an initialization string (see
Section 6.1
) to automatically reinitialize the printer before each job.
4.
Send a print job to the printer.
The “Buffer” LED on the printer’s operator panel should blink. If this LED
and the “Ready” LED both remain steadily lit, press the “Print/Check” or
“Print Buffer” button on the printer’s operator panel to eject the last page.
(The printer might continue to print after the PC shows the print job is
finished, until is has printed everything in its buffer.)
If you send the PC/LAN print job while a host job is printing, the printer
responds as “busy” to the PC print request. The print job can be spooled
through a spool program and sent to the printer after the host job is
complete. Or, if you set the printer port of the PC or LAN server for
infinite retry with the DOS “Configure Printer” command (described in
the DOS manual), the print job waits until the printer is available to
receive the data.
6.3 Host-Port Initialization
After PC/LAN printing, the HPIIISi Twinax Card reconfigures the printer
according to the active configuration settings. If you want to further modify
the printer configuration (for example, to select a different font for all
host printing), take advantage of the host-port initialization string
(host/PC-download command 11). Unlike the parallel-port initialization
string, which is usually overridden by commands that accompany the
PC/LAN print job, the host-port initialization string is not sent to the
printer until after the Card has reconfigured the printer for host printing.
The initialization string is sent at the beginning of each printed page.
6.4 Host Printing
With the HPIIISi Twinax Card installed, your printer emulates the IBM
3812-1. The IBM 3812-1 printer is a laser-type printer which provides font-
changing capability, plus text-rotation and -compression features called
Automatic Print Orientation (APO) and Computer Output Reduction
(COR).
The Card’s emulation of the 3812 includes bolding, underlining, and
super/subscripts by recognizing the host commands for these features in
the document. A shadow print for bolding is performed automatically on
