Printers are setup and defined in Quantum through the System Management module. If you access Maintenance you will see "Printer Specifications". You can define printers as local or network printers, control the pitch, font and orientation of the output and even specify a default printer for each user. Geneva supplies its customers with a fairly robust list of existing printer specifications for both matrix and laser printers (pcl).
For network printers you will need to "capture a printer port" on that individual PC and reference that port (ie, lpt3) in the printer specification record. An example of a network printer for printing A/P laser checks in 12 pitch is as follows:
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- Use short printer names in lower case so it's easy to remember and find them
- Describe the printer specification as much as you can in the first line -- that shows up on the printer search screens
- NT networks will probably always be non-queued printers -- local printers are only used in Unix and thin client workstations
- Device can be a mapped lpt port OR a full network pathname of the printer -- the mapped lpt port is often easier to use
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Sequence codes are issued to the printer before and after the Quantum print job is submitted. The Off Sequence codes are almost always the same: 027 and 069 -- this resets the printer codes back to what they were before Quantum started printing to the printer. The following are a list of often-used sequence codes:
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| laser check forms in 12 pitch |
dp reports - landscape 132 column |
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| dp reports portrait 8 lpi |
laser W2 forms |
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| Default A Printer to a User |
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Access the Maintenance menu in the System Management module. Click "User Identification" and you will see the following screen:
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Enter the User ID EXACTLY as it is spelled in that user's mcba.ini file (located in their Windows or WINNT directory)
Terminal Type should = "windows"
Non-Queued Printer default : type in the name of the printer specification (spelled exactly as it is in the printer specification record)
Press Pfkey-11 to update/save the record |
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Test the user's default by accessing a printer destination screen from his or her workstation. What you entered here should appear in the non-queued printer field automatically. There is also a non-queued printer default in the user's security record. If security is activated and a non-queued printer is defined it may override whatever you specified here.
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