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NCR RealPOS 7197 Printer Migration Guide
Customer Options for Downloaded Characters Differences
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Accept the smaller image on the 7197 (no change is required)
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Redefine the user character for the 7197 (requires an application
change, and will print larger on the 7193 than on the 7197 or 7194 in
a mixed 7193/7194/7197 environment with the same application)
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Redefine the user character to work well on both printers (requires
an application change, and is not optimized for either printer but
will be acceptable in a mixed environment with the same
application)
Note on Printer Drivers
TAPS
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No changes were made with TAPS to support the new 7197
printer. There is no 7197 TAPS driver. NCR Engineering has certified
the 7197 to run in 7193 Emulation Mode only with the latest release of
TAPS. Results when operating the 7197 in 7193 Emulation mode with
an earlier release of TAPS are unpredictable; technical support from
NCR may be limited and available only on a T&M basis. TAPS does
not allow modification of the application to send new 7197 commands,
so a customer using TAPS may only take advantage of these features
by updating both application and drivers (using NCR OPOS or writing
directly to the printer).
NCR OPOS
- An NCR OPOS driver (Service Object) was released for
the 7197 Native Mode to support printer functionality included in the
standard OPOS specification. Functions not included in the OPOS
Release 1.2 specification, to which our Service Objects are coded, but a
DirectIO method is provided to allow applications using the NCR
OPOS Service Object to take advantage of this feature. Functions not
included in the OPOS specification and not accessible when using the
NCR OPOS driver include:
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The NCR OPOS Service Object does not support polling of the
printer for resident diagnostic tallies (the NCR OPOS Sender Agent
actually provides logs and tallies to the Logs and Tallies Agent
without querying the printer).
