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5-4 Common Controller
ASCII and PCL Printing Utility
ASCII printing within various environments results in output that
is not always formatted as desired. Unfortunately, there is no
"standard" method for printing ASCII files. ASCII is a character
set and is not a Page Description Language. Therefore, ASCII
files do not contain format commands nor is there a de facto
standard for ASCII formatting. However, users often have the
requirement to match a specific format. The utility below helps
enable this formatting flexibility along with the feature in Queue
Manager that enables the ability to select the default document
format.
Impact on DocuSP printers
The DocuSP software automatically wraps ASCII files with a
predefined set of PostScript code and sends the data through
the PostScript decomposer. Unfortunately, this predefined
formatting does not always meet customer ASCII printing needs
and there are no "knobs" to change the formatting within
PostScript.
As an alternative, ASCII files can be identified as PCL and sent
through the PCL decomposer. The PCL decomposer does
provide some additional capabilities that can be used to print
ASCII files as desired.
To force ASCII files to use the PCL decomposer, change the file
format in Job Manager. This can also be done by changing the
queue default document property from ASCII to PCL.
setpclcontrol Utility
The setpclcontrol utility offers the following user controls:
4 Still “Receiving Data” “Pending” Job 2 prints
first
5 “Pending” Still “Pending” Job 1 prints
first
Table 5-1.
Event
Sequence Job ABC Job XYZ
Limited FIFO
Enabled
Limited FIFO
Disabled