The functions of the LAYOUT GROUP are:
Orientation - portrait or landscape.
Margin settings - left, right, and top in relation to the available page
area, and page (text) length in number of lines.
VMI and HMI - Vertical Motion Index, Horizontal Motion Index.
VMI refers to the smallest increment that can be made in the vertical or
y axis. Line spacing is a multiple of VMI. HMI refers to the smallest
increment that can be made in the horizontal or x axis. Dot spacing is a
multiple of HMI.
Vertical and Horizontal Offset - text/graphic position is oriented
away from the center of the printed page, for special layouts, such as left
and right pages of a book or magazine.
The PAPER FEED GROUP includes:
Feeder - whether the paper will be fed from the cassette or manually.
Paper size - the dimensions of the paper cassette now in use.
Automatic parameters- whether there is an automatic carriage return
(CR) at a paragraph break, an automatic line feed (LF) at the end of each
line, a form feed (FF) after each page, and an auto wrap feature.
The INTERFACE GROUP functions include:
Interface type - parallel or serial
What the communication settings would be if serial communication
were activated, including baud rate (rate of data transmission), data bits
(number of information bits per byte), parity (error checking mode), and
communication protocol.
Page Four: The fourth page of the status report presents information about
the fonts available for each of .the three printer emulations, HP LaserJet
III(primary and secondary fonts), IBM Proprinter, and Epson EX-800. HP
emulation displays a symbol set. Epson, and IBM Proprinter emulations
display character sets. These include the selection of letters, numbers, and
symbols, such as
Roman-8
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