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Using an ASCII file on a printer
If an ASCII file gets sent to a printer (which is possible in a PlanetPress Suite solution), you
need to know if your printer supports binary mode as this is the recommended mode for ASCII
emulation. On printers that support binary mode, you can switch the printer to binary mode
using the printer keypad or by sending the appropriate PostScript code to the printer.
In binary mode, the printer reads the end of line characters (carriage return [CR], line feed [LF],
and carriage return followed by a line feed [CRLF]) as they appear in the data stream and does
not perform any substitution. A printer that does not support binary mode or is not running in
binary mode replaces any CR, LF, or CRLF that appears at the end of a line of data with a LF.
A form feed signals the end of a data page in ASCII emulation. If no form feed occurs in the data
stream, the emulation adds data to the data page buffer until the buffer is full.
ASCII emulation options
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Tab on carriage return: Select this option to fix formatting problems caused by isolated
CR characters found within the data. When this option is selected, isolated CR characters
are spaces, as defined in the Number of spaces in the tab box below. Note that this option
is available only when the Read in binary mode option is selected.
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Number of spaces in the tab: Enter the number of spaces you want the application
to use when an isolated carriage return character is found within the data. This
number typically corresponds to the maximum column number. If your data is
formatted so as to occupy a maximum of 120 characters on each line, enter a value
of 120 in this box, so when an isolated CR character is found, the data following the
CR character will appear starting from column 121. Note that this option is available
only when the Tab on carriage return option is selected
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Number of spaces per tab: Enter the number of spaces you want to use when actual
TAB characters are found within the data.
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Remove HP PCL escapes: Select if you want all Hewlett Packard Printer Control
Language escape sequences to be removed from the data.
Channel skip emulation
Channel skip emulation is a variant of line printer emulation. It tells the process to read the data
stream one line at a time, and to treat the first character of each line as a code that indicates
how to position the line of data in the data page buffer.
By default, in channel skip emulation, the integer 1 signals the end of a data page. You can
change this default when you set up the emulation.
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