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WARNING:

This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used
in accordance with the instruction manual, may cause interference to radio communications. It has
been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class A computing device pursuant to Subpart
B of Part 15 of FCC Rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection against such inter-
ference when operated in a commercial environment. Operation of this equipment in a residential
area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take
whatever measures may be required to correct the interference.

EMC

 

directive

:

This product observes the rules and regulations of the EMC directive. If so required, a declaration of
conformity in local language stipulating the applied rules and regulations can be obtained.

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Rank Xerox Electronic Documentation

Laser 3270

Programmer’s Guide

Doc. no. D62077

Revision 00

Solution for Xerox Printers

Summary of Contents for 3270

Page 1: ...of this equipment in a residential area is likely to cause interference in which case the user at his own expense will be required to take whatever measures may be required to correct the interferenc...

Page 2: ...PCL and XES mode Please note that some features will be briefly introduced in this section and then elaborated on in the separate printer driver Programmer s Guides listed below NOTE As the printer dr...

Page 3: ...ter or a specific application The reader must have basic knowledge and understanding of IBM computer systems especially the IBM 3270 Information Display System The reader should also be familiar with...

Page 4: ...he Notation 15 2 4 Testing via the Line 16 3 Manipulation of Temporary and Permanent Memory Areas 17 3 1 The Three Levels of Settings 17 3 2 Commands for Storing and Restoring Settings 19 3 2 1 Functi...

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Page 6: ...ocol converter to suit your printing requirements See the FSL 3270 Programmer s Guide D62071for further configuration in FSL mode When to use the FSL driver If you need serial output from the converte...

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Page 8: ...o 16 translate tables 8 for text and 8 for APL which may be modified as you wish Each character from the host may be transmitted to up to 12 ASCII characters Flash PROM allowing the downloading of new...

Page 9: ...M area may be saved permanently in the permanent memory area if specified by a special command The permanent memory area is read each time power is turned on to the converter or when you give a specia...

Page 10: ...Functions are used for setting up the printer to special applications to carry out a special print job or to gain access to special facilities in the printer A complete description of the sup ported F...

Page 11: ...he converter Sending special commands to the converter e g to save the contents of the temporary memory in the permanent memory When the converter receives the characters following the ESC character i...

Page 12: ...ble printing results The same applies to 0 9 A F a f and K S T X Y Z simple quote and These must not be used CAUTION Avoid using your national characters as ESC characters The following EBCDIC HEX cod...

Page 13: ...a permanent ESC character in the printer you will have to use Function 48 Select Perma nent Escape Character and save the settings in the permanent memory by the command ESC X1 before powering off To...

Page 14: ...strings to remove the permanent ESC character is defined as temporaryESC character 2 2 Sending HEX Codes When an ESC character has been defined you may send any HEX code to your printer Below you will...

Page 15: ...Apostrophes tell the converter that the characters following should be regarded as ASCII characters in the commands Below you can see an example of this 1B 12 Structure of a command with the apostrop...

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Page 17: ...s taking place when power is turned on Section 3 2 Commands for Storing and Restoring Settingsdescribes the commands that manipulate the temporary and the permanent memory areas Section 3 4 Restrictin...

Page 18: ...3270 Programmer s Guide Manipulation of Temporary and Permanent Memory 18 See Fig 3 1 below which illustrates the interaction of the three levels Fig 3 1 The three levels of settings...

Page 19: ...mporary ESC character if any will be removed Command Description Example X1 Use this command to save settings permanentlyin the interface memory Without the X1 change of settings will be lost at power...

Page 20: ...3 Action at Power On When you apply power to the converter the following procedure will be executed 1 The permanent memory will be read to determine whether it con tains valid data If so the data wil...

Page 21: ...e access restriction to the permanent and the temporary memory areas Y49 1 opt password Restrict access to both the permanent memory and the temporary memory Y49 2 opt password Restrict access to the...

Page 22: ...6 or 8 LPI Characters per inch CPI 10 12 15 16 7 CPI Maximum Page Length MPL Maximum Print Position MPP The converter may be set up to emulate this control via the line on your printer LPI can be sel...

Page 23: ...t Quality is used for defining a default font or print quality draft quality or near letter quality Function Y11 Paper Path is used for defining the default paper path tractor feed or tray 1 or 2 For...

Page 24: ...correspondence between interface functions and IBM RPQ numbers Function no 3287 RPQs 3268 RPQs 4214 RPQs 25 N A N A N A 26 SC3750 SC9508 Opt 20 3 27 SC3741 SC9505 Opt 18 3 28 S30219 SC9501 Opt 15 1 29...

Page 25: ...disabled This can be useful as some sys tems will retransmit the last buffer after the intervention required message This means that the buffer contents will be printed twice and that the form feed m...

Page 26: ...rder to completely disable the IRQ you must set all parameters to 00 NOTE IRQ caused by printer deselect Y46 value 2 Hold Time Out cannot be changed It can be disabled by setting Y46 value 1 to 0 IRQ...

Page 27: ...set to zero 0 which is factory default see Supported FSL Functions in the relevant printer driver Programmer s Guide enclosed on your original documentation kit diskette On the PC you must also make...

Page 28: ...is is done by sending a new setup to the 3270 converter input port where you want it to take effect When specifying the timeout it is possible to specify a user string A user string may be used to res...

Page 29: ...after an converter error message Before and or after a local copy The user string has to be defined in Function Y61 and will in all the mentioned examples be sent directly to the printer NOTE The con...

Page 30: ...the Error Recovery strings Examples Escape Sequence Function Y61 3 1B 45 Defines string 3 with the PCL com mand for RESET Y51 1 5 7 Send strings 1 5 7 at power on Y52 4 Send string 4 at printer error...

Page 31: ...with ABCD The rest of the sequence 8F Y2 8 will exchange future occurences of escape 8F with Y2 8 to select 8 LPI As there are differences between the printer drivers in connec tion with printer shari...

Page 32: ...______________ pin 2 pin 3 __________________________________ pin 3 pin 4 _________________________________ pin 7 pin 5 _ ________________________________ pin 20 pin 6 _ pin 7 If the attached printer...

Page 33: ...nge code ESC ESCape character FF Form Feed FL Form Length FMH Function Management Header FSL Function Selection via the Line GFID Font ID HEX HEXadecimal HMI Horizontal Motion Index LF Line Feed LPI L...

Page 34: ...ettings 24 IRQ Time 25 M Manuals Related 3 Memory Areas Manipulation of 17 permanent 17 temporary 17 P Page Presentation Media Command 23 PCL Printer Driver 6 7 Permanent ESC Character 13 14 Printer D...

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