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QMS  MAGNUM

Emulation

User's Guide

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1800430-001A

Summary of Contents for CF 2215

Page 1: ...QMS MAGNUM Emulation User s Guide 1800430 001A...

Page 2: ...r in part without the express written permission of QMS Inc Copyright Notice This manual is Copyrighted 1995 by QMS Inc One Magnum Pass Mobile AL 36618 All Rights Reserved This manual may not be copie...

Page 3: ...on 1 2 System Requirements 1 2 About the Documentation 1 3 About This Manual 1 4 What s in the Shipment 1 5 Registering the Product 1 6 MAGNUM Emulation Features 1 6 Code V Programming Language 1 6 Gr...

Page 4: ...ameters 2 14 A QMS Customer Support Sources of Support A 2 Your QMS Vendor A 2 Your Application Vendor A 2 Q FAX A 2 The QMS Corporate Bulletin Board System A 3 CompuServe A 3 Internet A 3 QMS Custome...

Page 5: ...Contents iii B Character Tables Introduction B 2 ISO Character Table B 2 PC Subset Character Table B 3 Index v...

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Page 7: ...In This Chapter n System requirements n Manual overview n MAGNUM emulation features 1 Introduction...

Page 8: ...ement You need QMS Crown Printer The QMS MAGNUM emulation is available only on the following QMS Crown printers at the specified or greater software release level QMS 1060E Print System software relea...

Page 9: ...oking at this manual It contains detailed information on installing and using the QMS MAGNUM emulation QMS Code V Version II Programming Manual This manual provides command reference information for t...

Page 10: ...tion documentation 2 Installation Provides the installation procedures settings for the printer s memory details on how to configure the emulation memory client and information on the QMS MAGNUM emula...

Page 11: ...and information displayed on the screen Mixed Case Italic Courier Variable text you type replace the italicized word s with information specific to your computer printer or network lowercase italic V...

Page 12: ...he US call QMS toll free at 800 637 8049 In other countries see appendix A QMS Customer Support for the appro priate telephone number MAGNUM Emulation Features This brief overview will acquaint you wi...

Page 13: ...bar code label and form printing needs Fonts The following nine fonts are downloaded to the printer s hard disk when the emulation is installed User Benefit These standard fonts increase the emulation...

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Page 15: ...In This Chapter n Installing and configuring printer memory n Downloading the emulation n Using the emulation 2 Installation...

Page 16: ...nfigured at the factory and any excess has either been allocated to the display list or frame buffer or it has been distributed among all cli ents depending on which printer you have QMS recommends th...

Page 17: ...til its memory is reconfigured QMS recommends that you add an additional 4 MB of memory to any QMS Crown printer except the QMS 3825 which comes standard with 32 MB maximum memory for optimal QMS MAGN...

Page 18: ...perform an Administration Memory operation before you either write down any unique memory settings or print an advanced status page You will need this information if you have to return the printer to...

Page 19: ...ntered press the Select key to complete the change The new memory setting is displayed for a moment and then the current Memory menu selection displays See the example that follows this procedure If y...

Page 20: ...your environment Keep in mind that K Mem Emulation must be a minimum of 2 MB 2048 KB Example Note This is an example of the control panel messages on a QMS 1660E Print System The messages on a QMS 10...

Page 21: ...ownloaded the only way to remove it is to reformat the hard disk Administration Disk Operations Format Disk menu or the PS Executive Series Utilities Use this key to The message window reads Previous...

Page 22: ...ected through the parallel port type copy b ps lpt where is 1 to 3 b refers to binary files n If your PC and printer are connected through the serial port type copy b ps com where is 1 to 4 b refers t...

Page 23: ...e to MAGNUM via the Administration Communications interface Emu lation setting where interface is your communications interface Note If ESP is desired for the interface then set the Administration Emu...

Page 24: ...de V Near Letter Quality 13 33 cpi Font 8 Code V Near Letter Quality 15 cpi Font 9 Code V Near Letter Quality 17 14 cpi Font 10 OCR A Size 1 10 cpi Font 11 OCR B Size 1 10 cpi Note The OCR fonts inclu...

Page 25: ...lines of text when your files are printed Default Font 5 Notes The following is a sample of how the fonts look Note Font 12 symbol set is also available for use with this emulation It contains symbol...

Page 26: ...via this option Set 1ST Ignore Defines the first character that the controller is to ignore when pro cessing MAGNUM print jobs If your host sends extra characters with your data stream that have no e...

Page 27: ...LF Stipulates whether each line feed LF hex 0A in the print job is translated to a carriage return line feed combination CR LF hex 0D hex 0A Menu Administration Emulations MAGNUM Misc Set 2ND Ignore...

Page 28: ...e V programming language values Note QMS recommends that these options be changed only by experienced Code V programming language users Conversion Sets the MAGNUM emulation to conversion On mode Menu...

Page 29: ...rmat Choices On Enables Free Format mode Off Disables Free Format mode Default Off Notes To enable Free Format mode on MAGNUM emulation start up set both this option and the Administration Emulations...

Page 30: ...ecommends that the control character be a non printable character This includes alphanumeric characters characters between Hex 00 and Hex 11F inclusive lowercase characters and the character N Hex 4E...

Page 31: ...UM char acters Set this option to On if you wish to send your existing Code V Version I programs to the printer unchanged If you don t have Code V Version I programs or if you didn t encounter elongat...

Page 32: ...dpi you need to modify all positioning and dimensional commands in your Code V Version I programs for them to print correctly The factory default setting for vertical resolution is 290 dpi If you wan...

Page 33: ...u to take advantage of higher density bar code printing On Scales variable ratio bar codes to match the overall size of the same bar codes when printed on an impact printer Default Off Notes If you ha...

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Page 35: ...A QMS Customer Support In This Appendix n Sources of customer support n QMS world wide offices...

Page 36: ...rer is the best source of help Q FAX Q FAX a QMS information retrieval service provides application notes technical support notes on common printing problems and information about printer specificatio...

Page 37: ...sponse Center CRC for more information about the bulletin board CompuServe Through CompuServe you ask general non technical questions share information with other users and access printing information...

Page 38: ...our technicians can help you more quickly n Your phone number fax number and shipping address n A description of the problem n The printer model and serial number n The type of host computer you are...

Page 39: ...ntral Time Spare Parts Ordering and Information 1 800 633 4300 x2530 8 00 am 5 00 pm Central Time QMS in Australia Service Information and Maintenance 61 3 899 5777 Fax 61 3 899 0972 QMS Canada Genera...

Page 40: ...31 QMS in Japan Service Information and Maintenance 81 3 3437 4030 Fax 81 3 3437 4067 QMS in The Netherlands and Belgium Service Information and Maintenance 31 30414646 Fax 31 30413850 Service Informa...

Page 41: ...v QMS in Spain Service Information and Maintenance 34 1 742 5013 Fax 34 1 320 8438 QMS in Switzerland Service Information and Maintenance 41 1829 1111 Fax 41 1829 1781 QMS UK Ltd Service Information a...

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Page 43: ...B Character Tables In This Appendix n ISO character table n PC Subset character table...

Page 44: ...the MAGNUM emulation ISO Character Table The following substitutions occur automatically when one of the fol lowing ISO character sets is selected as the default character set ISO Character Set 23 24...

Page 45: ...r substitutions occur automatically when PC Subset is selected as the default character set v 7C 94 AA 80 95 AB 81 96 AC 82 97 AD 83 98 AE 84 99 AF 85 9A B3 86 9B DC n 87 9C E1 88 9D E6 89 9E Pt F1 8A...

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Page 47: ...in Zero 2 16 Vertical MAG COR 2 17 Verticle Scale 2 18 CompuServe A 3 Control Char 2 16 Conventions Manual 1 5 Conversion 2 14 CR CR LF 2 13 Customer Response Center CRC QMS A 4 Customer support QMS...

Page 48: ...ing 2 7 Features 1 6 Form Setup menu 2 11 ISO character table B 2 Misc menu 2 12 PC subset character table B 3 Setting default font 2 9 Using 2 8 Manual Contents 1 4 Overview 1 4 Typographic conventio...

Page 49: ...3 Shipment contents 1 5 Slash in Zero 2 16 Support QMS CompuServe A 3 Customer A 2 Internet A 3 QMS bulletin board A 3 Technical A 4 United States A 4 World wide A 4 System requirements 1 2 Hard disk...

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