Specifications

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Printer, Plotter, and Spooler Subsystem Programming
If you need support for Greek or Turkish characters, complete the following steps:
1. You must have a Language Group 3 font diskette installed in the printer.
2. As the root user, enter smit chpq.
3. Select the appropriate print queue and select Printer Setup on the Change/Show
Characteristics menu. For the font diskette, specify:
– CP851 to print Greek characters.
– CP853 to print Turkish characters.
IBM 3816 Page Printer
The system assumes that a font diskette, Feature #7652, is in the printer’s diskette drive.
Fonts are loaded into printer memory from a font diskette inside the printer. The system
maintains a record of which fonts have been loaded, and whether the fonts in memory may
have been corrupted by a print job and therefore need reloading from diskette. If the printer
is turned off and then turned back on, run the splp command with the –F ! flag and the
device name. This notifies the system that the fonts need to be loaded into the printer’s
memory.
The 3816 Page Printer can print on paper other than the default 8–1/2 by 11 inch size. The
paper size can be changed using SMIT. This is described in Specifying paper size on page
2-38. To change paper size for a single print job, specify the –Q flag with the qprt
command.
IBM 4019 LaserPrinter and 4029 LaserPrinter
The system selects the IBM ASCII or PCL emulation data stream without manual
intervention.
The LaserPrinter can print on paper other than the default 8–1/2 by 11 inch size and on
envelopes other than the default #10 envelope. The paper or envelope size can be changed
using SMIT and described in Specifying paper size on page 2-38. To change paper or
envelope size for a single print job, specify the –Q flag with the qprt command.
If a font card is installed, the system must be alerted. To handle this, do the following:
1. As the root user, enter smit chpq.
2. Select the appropriate print queue and select Printer Setup on the Change/Show
Characteristics menu.
– Specify which font card is installed in the top card slot.
– Specify which font card is installed in the bottom card slot.
Note: The value of the nn variable is the font card identifier, which is the two–digit
number just above the arrow on the font card.
If a PostScript option is installed in your 4019 LaserPrinter and the PostScript option
supports automatic emulation/mode switching, the printer can be configured to switch
automatically between PostScript mode and emulation modes, as well as switching between
emulation modes. To determine if the PostScript option installed in your printer supports
this, check the guide to operations manual that came with your PostScript option. Or, verify
that the PostScript interpreter is version 52.3 or later, by checking the PostScript startup
page that is printed when the printer is powered on in PostScript mode (unless it has been
disabled). If automatic emulation/mode switching is indicated, notify the system as follows:
1. As the root user, enter smit chpq.
2. Select the appropriate print queue and select Printer Setup on the Change/Show
Characteristics menu. Specify yes in the AUTOMATIC MODE SWITCHING for
PostScript attribute.