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Table Of Contents
- Capturing Data
- Overview
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Capture Sample Data for a Document You Install on a Printer
- Capture Sample Data for a Document You Install in PlanetPress Watch
- Capture Sample Data in Windows NT
- Capture Sample Data in Windows 2000/Server 2003/XP
- Capture Sample Data in Windows Host Using a Novell Print Server
- Capture Sample Data in UNIX (Solaris)
- Capture Sample Data using an AS/400 Systems
- Capture Sample Data From a Serial Port
- Creating Triggers
- Overview
- Key Concepts
- Detailed Directions
- Implement a Trigger under Novell 3.x
- Implement a Trigger under Novell 4.x and 5.x with NDS or Bindery Printers
- Implement a Trigger under Windows NT 4.0 with TCP/IP
- Implement a Trigger under BSD Printing Systems (BSDi, FreeBSD, Linux)
- Implement a Trigger under UNIX System V (Solaris)
- Implement a Trigger and Configure an AIX 4.3 Printer
- Implement a Trigger under VMS
- Implement a Trigger with AS/400 Systems
- Prepare SAP Device Type for PlanetPress Design
- Implement a Trigger under HP 3000
- Special Printer Requirements
- ASCII Conversion Table
- CL Program for AS/400 Systems
- Index
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Capturing Data
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9. In the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, then choose Printer.
The Printers window appears.
10. Right-click on the printer you paused and choose Pause printing.
The spooler sends the job to the printer.
Capture Sample Data in Windows 2000/Server 2003/XP
You perform this procedure on the machine that controls the printer, not on the workstation.
1. In the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, then choose Printer.
The Printers window appears.
2. Right-click on the printer on which you intend to execute your document and choose Pause printing.
3. In the application you use to manipulate the input data, send the data you want to capture to the
printer you selected in step 2.
The printer driver creates a printer spool file containing the representative data sample.
4. In the Windows Start menu, choose Run.
The Run dialog box appears.
5. In the Run dialog box, in the Open box, enter COMMAND.(
A DOS Command Prompt window appears.
6. In the DOS Command Prompt window, change directory to the spool folder:
cd C: \windows\spool\printer
7. Copy the spool file (.spl) you just created to a floppy or to another folder.
The *.spl file contains your data.
8. Close the DOS session.
9. In the Windows Start menu, choose Settings, then choose Printer.
The Printers window appears.
10. Right-click on the printer you paused and choose Pause printing.
The spooler sends the job to the printer.