Print Folder—Host Printing Advanced Category

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In the Host Printing category, you can set advanced printer options relating to the host computer.

Formatting—Specifies how the print output will be formatted.

Bypass Windows Print Driver—Sends all print data from the host directly to the printer as it is received (not translated). When you clear this option, all data is translated and processed by the HostExplorer print engine. This lets you select the page format in the Page Setup dialog box accessible by clicking the Layout button.

Disable Printer Translation—Disables translation of host data from the host code page to the Windows code page. This option is available only when you clear the Bypass Windows Print Driver option.

Auto Formfeed—Automatically adds a formfeed to the end of the print job.

Expand LineFeed—When Passthru printing is enabled by the host, this option expands all line feed characters to Carriage-Return Linefeed. When you clear this option, line feed characters are not expanded.

Layout—This button is active only when you clear the Bypass Windows Print Driver option. Opens the Page Setup dialog box which lets you modify the page settings and specify a font for the print output.

Printer Control—Specifies the string that will be sent to the printer for passthru printing.

Printer Initialization String—Sends the Initialization strings to the printer for passthru printing. The string defines the escape sequences that can be sent to the printer at the beginning of a print job, and can contain up to 255 characters. You can enter Escape and binary codes using C-style syntax using the backslash character (\). Inline spaces are treated as part of the sequence.

Printer Deinitialization String—Sends the Deinitialization strings to the printer for passthru printing. The string defines the escape sequences that can be sent to the printer at the end of a print job, and can contain up to 255 characters. You can enter Escape and binary codes using C-style syntax using the backslash character (\). Inline spaces are treated as part of the sequence.

Options—Specifies the timeout options for the printer.

Enable Timeout—Enables the timeout specified in the Printer Timeout (in seconds) box. By default, this option is cleared.

Printer Timeout (in seconds)—Specifies the delay before the printer outputs a page.

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