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Field Name Description
Printer type Specifies the printer type you are going to use.
1 4224, 4234, 4230
2 3812, 3816, 3930
3 3916, 4028
4 3820, 3825, 3827, 3829, 3835, 3900
5 3825, 3835, 3900 with the Advanced Function Image and
Graphics feature
6 3831
7 3935
9 Not specified
The specified value is used to :
Check if each element is supported by the printer.
Create the appropriate data stream to each printer.
| If 9 or *DEFAULT is selected, another panel is displayed to confirm or
| change the following attributes for your printer:
| Pel density
| Graphics
| Text color
| Color shading
| Vertical right to left format, for DBCS
| PTOCA Tower 2, Underline, Overstrike, Character enlarge
| BCOCA, Bar Code Object Content Architecture
See Appendix A, “Printer Characteristics” on page 413 for the
differences of printers.
Characters per
inch
Specifies the width of a column. For example, at 12 CPI, each column
takes one-twelfth inch width. The valid values are 5.00, 10.00, 12.00,
13.30, 15.00, 16.70, 18.00, and 20.00.
This value is used to specify horizontal positions when the
measurement method is Row/Column.
This value is also used to specify horizontal positions of the text in a
box element.
Lines per inch Specifies the distance from one row to the next. For example, 8 LPI
means that the distance between the bottom of a row and that of the
next one is one-eighth inch. The valid values are 3.00, 4.00, 6.00,
7.50, 8.00, 9.00, and 12.00.
This value is used to specify vertical positions when the measurement
method is Row/Column.
This value is also used to specify vertical positions of the text in a box
element.
Degree of
rotation
Specifies 0, 90, 180, or 270 for the degrees of clockwise rotation of an
overlay.
DBCS SO/SI
spacing
Specifies whether or not shift-out (SO) and shift-in (SI) characters are
printed as blanks.
Y (Yes) The shift-out and shift-in characters in the text data are
printed as blank characters.
N (No) The shift-out and shift-in characters in the text data are not
printed. They occupy no space in the printout.
Note: DBCS SO/SI spacing is valid only when the file is a DBCS
capable file.
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