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defined as “shared” in the computer's operating system configuration to which it is
directly connected. Printers connected to a LAN can be made accessible to all base
systems on the LAN.
On the application level, the printing can be accomplished according to two
different principles which determine the appearance of a printout:
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Picture based printing (old, “out of use, no printers available” )
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SCIL defined printing ("transparent" printing)
The SCIL defined printout can contain any characters supported by the printer.
The last mentioned type is specified by the SCIL function PRINT_TRANSPARENT.
The picture based printout produced by printers connected to a Windows computer
or a LAN is always semi-graphic. Pixel based printout can be obtained only on
printers connected to a NET. The fully graphic printout can be obtained on any
printers. Each base system and each application is able to recognize and use up to 20
printers. It is possible to configure virtual printers without a real physical
correspondence for logging in a file on a disk. When a printer is defined for printer
logging, all printout sent to the printer is stored on a disk. This is useful when
configuring an event log, that is a disk copy of the event list. A physical printer can
also be given more than one printer object definitions to enable several different
types of printout to the same printer. The printer operation can be supervised and
controlled, for example temporarily stopped and restarted, or the printout can be
redirected to another printer. This can be done by means of the ST and CL attributes
(refer to the System Objects manual).
2.7.1.2. Connecting printers to LAN
Printers connected to a base system computer or LAN must be configured in all base
systems that uses the printers. Configure the printer in each base system as follows:
1. Create a PRIn:B base system object, with at least the following attributes (see
System Objects manual):
DT "NORMAL" (black-and-white ASCII based print out) or
"TRANSPARENT" (SCIL defined print out)
DC "LINE"
SD Printer device name including UNC path (SD="\
\My_Computer\My_printer"). The printer must be shared
for the UNC name to be a valid value of the attribute
TT "LOCAL"
In addition, optional features are defined by the following attributes:
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