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Product Manual U42006-J-Z795-1-7600
Printing Printing host files (bypass print)
8.3 Printing host files (bypass print)
If you want to output host files to your local printer, use so-called bypass print. In
this mode, data is transferred directly from the host to the printer, bypassing the
screen (i.e. it is not displayed on the screen).
MT9750 supports the printer bypass function that allows you to output host files
to a file or to a printer connected to your PC. As bypass print can only be initia-
ted from the host, you have to use the BS2000 spool program RSO (Remote
SPOOL Output) to print and have a passive session open. Enter the following
to activate a printer in the RSO:
/SD DEV= <PRINTER NAME>
Printing is then started using the following command:
/PRINT <host file>, DEV=<PRINTER NAME>
Outputting host files to the PC printer
Ensure that the host for outputting print data to your PC is set up and that the
host printer and the local printer for your session are configured.
A passive session in which both the host printer and the local printer have been
configured are required for bypass printing.
Ê If necessary check the settings for redirecting the print output (in the Confi-
guration: Peripherals:Print Redirection menu).
Ê Start printing from your BS2000 application (see above).
As no end criterion exists for bypass printing, the end of a bypass print
job is subject to time-out monitoring. If there are pauses when a bypass
data stream is being transferred from the host, the bypass print job may
be divided into a number of small bypass jobs, each of which is handled
as a separate print job. The timer for monitoring this can be set in the Spe-
cial Parameters dialog box (accessed via Configuration: Special Parame-
ters: Terminal/Printer).
The control characters taken into account when interpreting the data stream for
bypass print are listed in the chapter “Character sets, compose characters, and
printer control characters“.
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