Pass-through printing

Set the following options for pass-through printing:

Pass-through Print Settings

The controls in this group are only available when the Use Pass-through Printing check box is checked.

Pass-through printing prints directly to a printer and may be useful in situations where the page oriented nature of Windows print management conflicts with the non-page orientation of some older TIP applications.

Whenever possible, you should print using standard Windows print management (the default). Windows controls all page formatting based on property settings for a configured print driver on your PC. In this instance, the host application must not send any page control commands (i.e., form feeds) to the printer.

When you bypass Windows print management and print directly to a printer, the host application program must supply all page control. Rocket TE UTS simply passes all information directly through to a configured printer.

Pass-through Options

The options in this group control special line and form advancement.

• Send LF after CR: Rocket TE UTS uses CR LF at the end of a line.
• Send CR after LF: Rocket TE UTS uses LF CR at the end of a line.
• Send CR after FF: Rocket TE UTS uses FF CR at the end of a line.
• Send FF on Close: Rocket TE UTS inserts an FF at the close of the print.
• Send LF at End of Screen: Rocket TE UTS adds an LF at the end of each screen.
  Note: This box should not be checked when using MAPPER AUX because MAPPER includes an LF at the end of the screen (you would get one more line). Send LF at End of Screen is for transactions that do not put in an LF, thus causing the next screen's data to print starting at the end of the last line.
• Send FF at End of Screen: Rocket TE UTS adds a FF at the end of each screen.
  Note: This will send a Form Feed at the end of each screen or block from the host. If the host message does not include an EOMI status, this action is not taken, allowing data from multiple screens to be printed without the form feed.
• No Auto-close Print: Rocket TE UTS keeps the print open at the end of a print operation.
• No Auto Page Feed: Rocket TE UTS does not perform a page eject after printing.

Character Translations

The entries in this table can be used to specify the ASCII characters that Rocket TE UTS is to substitute when receiving special ASCII characters from the host.

• Host Char.: Type the decimal representation of the anticipated ASCII host character.
• Print Char. 1 through Print Char. 4: In each column, type the decimal representation of the ASCII replacement character(s) to be sent to the printer.

Example of translating the tilde (~) to the Esc character:

Host Char	Print Char 1
126	27

Note: If additional rows are needed for translation, press the right mouse button over the table and select Add Row from the drop-down menu with the left mouse button. The new row will be inserted at the bottom of the table. The Delete Row item on the drop-down menu may be used to delete a selected row.

Printer Start and End Strings (max 41 chars)

The entries in this box can be used to provide special starting and ending strings to be sent to certain printer devices. Up to 41 characters may be supplied for each string.

• Start String: In this row, type the decimal representations of the ASCII characters to be sent to the printer as a beginning string.
• End Scrn Str: In this row, type the decimal representation of the ASCII characters to be sent to the printer as an ending string at the end of each screen (when no EOMI present). If the End Screen string is present, the Send LF at end of screen and Send FF at end of screen are ignored.
• End String: In this row, type the decimal representations of the ASCII characters to be sent to the printer as an ending string.
• Import: Click to import an existing pass-through print settings file.
• Export: Click to export the pass-through settings to a file.

Import

Click to import a text file.

Export

Click to export the data as a text file.