I-O 2677e Ethernet Display User s Guide
Printer Operation
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Degrees of page rotation can be specified through the printer file of a data processing document or in
the document format menu of a word processing document. See "Changing Page Rotation Settings"
below for a description on how to access the printer file and the document format menu. The available
settings are 0, 90, 180, 270 degrees and AUTO (AS/400 only). The printer file also offers DEVD and
COR (AS/400 only).
With 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees you can specify the desired rotation directly from the host.
The COR setting will always print COR, unless the print quality (AS/400 and S/38) is set to NLQ or
STD, or Text (S/36) is set to YES. If the page rotation is set to COR and print quality/text is one of
the above mentioned settings, the print job will print in portrait in the requested font.
With the DEVD and AUTO settings the host does not influence the print orientation. Rather, the print
orientation is determined by the settings on the I-O 5250 printer emulation Control Panel or Host
Download Command.
Automatic Print Orientation (Block 2)
If no page rotation was specified on the host, the I-O 5250 printer emulation module
’s Automatic Print
Orientation (APO) feature is the first setting to determine the final print orientation. This feature
automatically rotates print jobs with dimensions of 8.5 x 14 inches or smaller to portrait or landscape
orientation.
With the APO feature ON, the I-O 5250 printer emulation module first checks the dimensions of the
host print job. If the print job is larger than 8.5 x 14 inches the I-O 5250 printer emulation module
cannot fit the print job on one page. In this case the orientation of the print job is determined by the
print orientation setting on the I-O 5250 printer emulation module (BLOCK 3).
If the dimensions of the print job are 8.5 x 14 inches or smaller, the I-O 5250 printer emulation
module compares the width to the height and automatically rotates the print job to portrait if the
height is larger than the width or landscape if the width is larger than the height.
The dimensions of a word processing document are specified directly through the document format
menu. The dimensions of a data processing report are calculated in the following manner:
Width = Page Width (in number of columns) / CPI
Length = Page Length (in number of lines) / LPI
Print Orientation Settings (Block 3)
The I-O 5250 printer emulation module
’s print orientation settings determine the orientation of the host
document/report AFTER the host’s page rotation setting
and
the I-
O 5250 printer emulation module’s
APO setting have been obeyed.
The available print orientation settings are portrait, landscape, and two COR options. The COR feature
rotates documents to landscape orientation and compresses the font as needed to fit the complete
document on a standard 8.5"x 14" page. This allows the user to print a report initially designed to fit on
14 7/8" x 11" green bar paper onto a standard letter or legal size page without redesigning the report.
When used together the APO and COR features can be a powerful tool to print host jobs in portrait,
landscape, or if required in landscape with reduced font (COR) without user intervention.
The I-O 5250 printer emulation module has two methods of handling COR.
The first COR option is not a true IBM 3812 emulation, but has been added by I-O to give the user
a more straightforward way of obtaining COR. The COR setting ignores print quality settings and
always prints COR (unless the host’s page rotation or the interface’s APO setting determine the
print orientation).
The second COR option is a true 3812-1 emulation. With certain page rotation settings on the host,
the IBM 3812-1 printer allows the user to manipulate the final print orientation through the print
quality setting. Note though, that this "override" only applies if the I-O 5250 printer emulation
module’s print orientation is set to COR, host override allowed.