Digi PortServer II, User Manual

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90030500B Configuring Printer Connections Page 165
Printing using lpd Protocol
Configuring the printer
To use the lpd protocol to print to a printer connected to PortServer II, configure the
print spooler on your system to print to a remote printer. Give the name or IP address
of PortServer II as the remote system’s name. Use the remote printer’s queue name to
specify what PortServer II port to print to, and how to print, as follows:
Note: Refer to your operating system documentation for information on how to
access the print queue.
1. The printer queue name for PortServer II begins with either
ascii
or
raw
. If the
name begins with
ascii
, PortServer II substitutes Carriage Return & Line Feed
character pairs for each Line Feed the system sends (this substitution is needed
with many UNIX systems). If the name begins with
raw,
no substitution is per-
formed.
2. After the queue name, insert an underscore character and the port number to print
to.
3. Finally, add another underscore and any options, in the form of single letters. Two
option letters are available:
f
- appends a Form Feed character to the end of each file in a print job.
d
- adds <Ctrl–d> is added to the end of each file in a print job. (This is often
required by PostScript printers.)