Adding printers

The Printer Device Selection and Setup dialog contains controls to equate an installed printer on the PC to a local printer name, use of a local print object, set special UTS print characteristics such as pass-through printing or assign Windows print settings.

1. In the UTS Terminal Configuration Settings dialog, highlight the desired Screen Name and click Edit Screen. Or you can double-click the screen name.
   The Edit Screen Settings dialog opens.
2. Click the Screen Settings tab.
3. Click Configure Printers.
   The Select Configured Printers dialog opens.
4. Click Manager Printers.
   The UTS Printer Manager dialog opens.
5. Click Add Printer.
6. Type a Local Name for the printer and click OK.
   The Printer Device Selection and Setup dialog opens.
7. Enter the following information:
   Note: This screen changes depending on the selected options.

   Use Local Print Object (LPO)

   If enabled, the Standard Printing Devices group is replaced with the Local Print Object (LPO) group.

   • Local Print Object Class Name: Type the name of the local print object class or click Browse to select the name from a list.

   • User Option

   Standard Printing Devices

   • Selected Printer: Select a printer from this drop-down menu. This menu contains a list of all printers installed through Windows on your PC and a <Text file> option for directing printing to a text file on your PC. After you select a printer, the Paper size, source group displays at the bottom of the screen.

   • Use Pass-through Printing: If enabled, the local printer is used for pass-through printing.

     Refer to Pass-through printing for more information on configuring pass-through printing.

   • Do not wrap print line: If enabled, long print lies are truncated rather than wrapped to the next line. The number of characters that are truncated or wrapped depends upon the font, font style, and font size selected for the printer and the page width chosen.

   Windows Print Settings

   • Font name: Select an installed font for printing.

   • Size: Set the font size that the text is printed.

   • Bold face: If enabled, the text is printed in bold face.

   • Character Set: Select the desired character set.

   • Portrait or Landscape: Select the desired page orientation.

   Page header text

   For normal printing (not pass-through), an optional page header can be added. The heading line only prints if text is present.

   Page size, source

   Click Edit to change the listed values.

8. Click OK.