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OVERVIEW AND PRINTER SETUP
Features and compatibilities
Your Xerox coax printers support the following features and
compatibility, and have these capabilities:
• Control of coax setup using a set of Host Utilities. These
utilities provide a high-level user interface to the set of
Function Selection via Line (FSL) commands that properly
customize the coax interfaces.
• Enables HP PCL 5 and PostScript Level 2 over all interfaces.
• Complete set of 3816 compatible fonts are provided with the
printer on a 9-track tape.
• Emulates the IBM coax printers shown in Table 1-1.
• U.S. or European settings using dipswitches
• Backwards compatibility with Xerox 3270 HS interface
• Automatic input sharing between coax and all other printer
interface ports
• Concurrent support of Systems Network Architecture (SNA)
Character String (SCS), Data Stream Compatibility (DSC),
3270 data streams (LU1), Intelligent Printer Data Stream
(IPDS), PCL 5, and PostScript Level 2
• Support for downloading new interface firmware.
• Hexadecimal (HEX) dump, ASCII HEX dump, and HEX dump
Printer Communication Interface Area (PCIA) dump to aid in
the debugging of coax interface problems.
The Xerox coax interface is designed to upgrade with an
Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) module. The support for
IPDS is done by plugging an IPDS-module on top of the
interface.
MRP Family user interface interaction with coax interface
The MRP Family coax interface communicates to the printer
controller in PCL. The following information clarifies printer
setup and user interface changes.
Printer setup
Default “Input Tray” and “Output Destination” settings from the
UI have no effect on the coax interface. For all jobs from the
coax interface, PCL commands are sent specifying a paper tray,
paper size, and output destination.
At installation, the default tray is #1 (PCL source 1), paper size is
letter or A4 depending on the ST1 jumper setting on the
interface card, and the output destination is PCL destination 1,
which defaults to the top tray. You may change the default
paper tray and destination by using an FSL Y11 command.
Details on this command for the coax environment are included
in this document. The other interfaces of the machine are
unaffected. Any embedded language commands override the
user interface settings.
XEROX MRP FAMILY COAX COMMAND REFERENCE 1-3