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Setting Up and Maintaining Queues

14.6 Using Queue Options

2. Assign the device control library to a queue. (This step is not necessary if you

use the default library name SYSDEVCTL.TLB.)

3. Create one or more forms with setup or page setup modules.

4. Assign reset modules to a queue.

Commands for Processing Print Jobs

You can use the following commands to set up device control library modules for

processing print jobs:

Command Description

DEFINE/FORM/SETUP Speciﬁes one or more modules that set up the device at

the start of each ﬁle of a job.

DEFINE/FORM/[NO]PAGE_SETUP Speciﬁes one or more modules that set up the device at

the start of each page of a job.

INITIALIZE/QUEUE/LIBRARY

START/QUEUE/LIBRARY

Speciﬁes the ﬁle name of the device control library.

INITIALIZE/QUEUE/SEPARATE=[NO]RESET

START/QUEUE/SEPARATE=[NO]RESET

SET QUEUE/SEPARATE=[NO]RESET

Speciﬁes one or more device control library modules

that contain the job reset sequence for the queue.

PRINT/FORM Speciﬁes the name or number of the form to be

associated with the print job.

14.6.8.1 Understanding the Order of Device Control Module Output

Device control modules are sent to the printer within a print job in the following

order:

1. Reset modules assigned to the queue. (Reset modules are only used at this

point for the ﬁrst job printed after a queue is started.)

2. Setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

3. Page setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

4. Setup modules speciﬁed with the PRINT command.

5. Page 1 of ﬁle 1.

6. Page setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

7. Page 2 of ﬁle 1, and so forth.

8. Page setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

9. Last page of ﬁle 1.

10. Setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

11. Page setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

12. Setup modules speciﬁed with the PRINT command.

13. Page 1 of ﬁle 2.

14. Page setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

15. Page 2 of ﬁle 2, and so forth.

16. Page setup modules speciﬁed in the form deﬁnition.

17. Last page of ﬁle 2.

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