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MULTIPORT SPOOLER VIII (4-, 8-, and 12-Port Models)
You cannot redirect the port connected to the MPS-VIII. For example, if
COM2 serves as that connection, it is not an eligible port for redirection.
Here’s another example. Suppose you have a Multiport Spooler VIII with
three printers attached: a black-and-white laser printer on port 4, a dot-matrix
printer on port 7, and a color laser printer on port 8. If you can assign three
MPSWIN phantom ports to these MPS-VIII ports, you can send jobs to the
attached printers from inside your word-processing application:
• PC phantom port COM4 can represent MPS-VIII port 4 (the B&W laser).
• PC phantom port COM7 can represent MPS-VIII port 7 (the dot-matrix).
• PC phantom port COM8 can represent MPS-VIII port 8 (the color laser).
If you click on the “Define String” button, another screen appears at which
you can define a character string that will be sent before and/or after the
print jobs sent from the chosen phantom port. (See
Section 6.3.4
.) When you
define a string for a phantom port, that port is automatically set to “String”
redirection mode. If later you redirect that phantom port differently (to
“PORT5,” for example), the string you defined earlier will be discarded.
6.3.4 S
TRING
-D
EFINITION
S
CREEN
Define strings at this screen. It automatically appears if you click on “Define
String” at the Port-Redirection screen; otherwise it doesn’t appear.
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