User guide

1.6 Device configuration
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plex pages containing large areas of fine detail, it may take longer to send a page
coded with
Run-Length Encoding than to send the same page coded with
None.
TIFF (Packbits) Encoding is a variant of run-length encoding, which also
performs a lossless compression but with a higher compression ratio. This mode
therefore allows a more efficient transfer of data than run-length encoding. This
mode is the default selection.
Output: Cut paper at end of each page
If you are using a roll-fed device, you can select this check box to instruct the
printer to cut paper at the end of each page. You must also ensure that the cutter
is enabled on your printer.
Output: Post Processing
You can enter commands in this field to perform actions once the page buffer
has been sent to the printer or once the output file has been created. For exam-
ple, you may wish to change the format of the output file or generate a report.
For full details see “Post processing” on page 31.
Note: The plugin does not support post processing on Macintosh computers.
1.6.1 Output file naming
The File Template text box within the Configuration dialog box enables you to specify
the automatic generation of an output file name using a template of fixed text and tags.
Most tags are content tags, representing variables such as the date and time a job is
processed; the other tags allow you to reject names that would be illegal in a specified
operating system. The maximum length of variables can be specified by preceding the
tag name with an integer. For example,
<5jobname> truncates the job name to a max-
imum of five characters. Tags that produce numeric values are truncated from left to
right, whereas tags that produce alphanumeric strings (strings containing the charac-
ters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9) are truncated from right to left. See “Examples of tag usage” on
page 26 for further details.
Fixed text can be part of the file name stem or extension. For example,
stem_<3unique><sepname><dot>hpf would generate a file name of the form:
stem_000Cyan.hpf, in which stem_ can be any identifying text.