NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Working with Print Device Definitions and Printer Forms
Working with Printer Forms
Working with Printer Forms
Printer forms can be designated in an effort to prevent your printer from
printing a print job on the wrong paper. The printer forms you define are
used as you set up print job configurations. For example, you might want
some jobs to be printed on letter-size sheets of paper and others on green-bar
continuous-feed paper.
Printer forms include information about the length and width of different
types of paper used in your printer. The print server operator is notified when
a form change is needed. Printer forms are configured in PRINTDEF or
NetWare Administrator.
When a print job requests a printer form other than the form currently
mounted in the printer, the print server does not service the job until a print
server operator reports that the new form is mounted. A print server operator
can use PCONSOLE, PSC, or NetWare Administrator to mount the new
form.
Printer form names must begin with an alphabetic character and can have up
to 12 alpha-numeric characters. Numbers can range from 0 to 254. Length
can range from 1 to 255. Width can range from 1 to 999. These numbers are
for your reference only.
NOTE: Printer forms are stored in the Directory Services database. In bindery mode, printer
forms are stored in a file named PRINTDEF.DAT in SYS:PUBLIC.
Creating or Modifying Printer Forms
Procedure
1 From the PRINTDEF “Available Options” menu, select “Printer Forms.”
A list of the forms that have been defined for printing appears.
2 Press <Insert>, then type the name of the new form you want to define in the
“Forms Definition Form” entry box and press <Enter>.
The first character of the form name must be alphabetic, and the form name
cannot exceed 12 characters. Examples of form names include White_8x11,
Continuous, Checks, Green_Bar, and Standard.