Using the Printer Interface

Types of Printing

Passthrough Printing without a Printer Definition File

The Printer Definition file contains ASCII control codes used to control several different ASCII printers directly, bypassing the Windows print driver. The BlueZone Printer Emulators convert SCS printer control commands to the selected ASCII printer control codes. This is not desirable if the printer data stream coming from the host is not SCS or does not contain SCS printer control commands, like ASCII Transparent Printing or iSeries Host Print Transform.

When to Use

Use with LU3 DSC/DSE printer data streams where print data and embedded page control characters (LF, FF, CR) are converted from EBCDIC to ASCII then sent to the printer.
When using ASCII Transparent Printing
When using iSeries Host Print Transform

When Not to Use

Printing EBCDIC LU1 and LU4 SCS printer data streams where printer control commands sent by the host are converted to ASCII printer escape sequences.
Standard SCS printing to a 3812 or 3287 type printer emulator.

Mandatory Emulator Settings

Settings required in the File:Print Setup property sheet necessary to properly configure the emulator for this feature.

Go to the Passthrough tab, check the Send all Data Directly to the Printer check box.
Also on the Passthrough tab, un-check the Use Printer Definition to Convert Formatting Commands to Printer Escapes check box. Checking this will result in unpredictable behavior.
Select a target printer, the Use default Windows Printer check box, or Print to File.

Ignored Emulator Settings

Settings that are have no affect once the Mandatory Settings are made.

All ignored settings are grayed out.