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Frequently used printer control characters
Character name: Character
code:
Typical use in printing context:
End-Of-Job \004 Indicates the end of a print job
Backspace \b Moves a character space backwards
Horizontal Tab \t Adds a horizontal tab
Line Feed \012 Moves to the next line
Form Feed \f Moves to the next page
Carriage Return \r Moves to the beginning of the current line
DOS End-Of-File \032 Indicates the end of a print job in a DOS
environment
Escape \033 Adds an escape character
New Line
(CRLF)
\n Goes to a new line
Windows Output printer queue
Windows output printer queues send print jobs to local or network printer queues set up in the
Windows session in which PReS Workflow is running. Note that jobs sent to those queues
completely bypass the printer driver.
Properties
General tab
l
Printer queue: Select the Windows printer queue to which you want to send print jobs.
l
Job name: Enter the job’s file name. By default, the variable %f (Job File Name; see
"System variables" on page705) is used. You may use a different variable, but you may
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