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Section 8: Advanced Options
Axis NPS 530/532 User’s Manual 59
Character Set Conversion
A common problem in a multiple host environment is that different hosts
use different ASCII character sets. As a result of this, language specific
characters (such as å ü ô ñ) are sometimes printed incorrectly.
The NPS 530/532 solution to this problem is to assign a character set
conversion filter to a logical printer, and link that logical printer to the
host causing the problem.
There are several different filters to choose from, see Printer1 Menu
parameter PR1_CSET in Appendix A. The output from the conversion
filter is always IBM PC Set 2 (Code Page 437), and that is the character
set the printer must be set up for.
Example: Your network contains three hosts using the character sets IBM PC Set 2,
ISO 8859-2, and DEC. In order to direct their print jobs to the same
printer, for instance LPT1, you should assign each host to a separate logi-
cal printer, and install character set conversion filters. Edit the following
entries in your config file:
The logical printer PR1 prints data transparently without conversion,
PR2 converts ISO 8859-2 data to IBM PC Set 2, and PR3 converts DEC
data to IBM PC Set 2. This will produce correct printouts for all language
specific characters.
PR1_OUT. : LPT1
PR1_CSET. : NONE
PR2_OUT. : LPT1
PR2_CSET. : ISO>IBM
PR3_OUT. : LPT1
PR3_CSET. : DEC>IBM