Printer Session Properties—LU3 Settings Tab

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Printer Session Properties—LU3 Settings Tab

Use this tab to configure options that HostExplorer Print Services will use for reports that the host computer prints using the LU1 printer protocol.

An LU3 printer is also known as an 3270 printer. LU3 is sometimes used by IBM mainframes, and is never used by AS/400 hosts.

Double Space Lines—Treats all line feed characters as double line feeds.

Print upper case only—Converts all lower case letters of the English alphabet [a..z] to upper case. It does not affect special characters and accented letters.

Suppress initial form feed—Discards a form feed character (if any) at the beginning of a report. Many host programs include a form feed at the beginning of a report to align the printer. If you are printing through Windows, then alignment is automatic and the initial form feed is not required.

Add blank page at end of job—Add a form feed character at the end of a report. (This may cause a blank page to print.) This option is useful if you are printing to fan-folded paper: it forces the last page of the report to leave the printer.

Always honor form feeds—Honors form feed orders even if the print position is not in column 1. Normally, form feed orders are treated as blanks when the print position is not column 1.

Reset position to column 1 on form feed—Resets the print position to column 1 after processing a form feed order. Normally, a form feed causes a form eject and then moves the print position to column 2. Warning: If you enable this option, your report may not align correctly.

Print blank lines if line is empty—Print a blank line when a line contains only null characters.

Defaults—Reset all options to their system default.