Axis 540plus User Manual

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Logical Printers108 AXIS 540+ / AXIS 560 User’s ManualSection 12 Logical PrintersThe print server has a powerful facility for altering the print data. Thismeans that your desired print format can be realized on any type ofprinter. The following actions can be invoked from the print server:• The character set can be changed to suit the printer• Strings can be added before and after the print data• Strings within the print data can be substituted• ASCII to PostScript conversion• Redirection of print data to another printer if the printer is busy• Hex Dump mode to assist with printing problemsIf any of these actions are required, a Logical Printer is used to change theprint data before being sent to the printer port. There are eight logicalprinters (PR1-PR8) that can be set up to filter the print data.The default logical printers settings are such that PR1—PR4 cause nochange to the flow of print data, while PR5—PR8 add CR to LF controlcharacters:Each logical printer can be set via the print server’s internal Web pages:Open a Web browser, enter the IP address of the print server in theLocation/Address field and select Admin | Logical Printers.The logical printers can also be set up by editing the config file. See“Editing the config file” on page 90.Notes:Logical Printer Changes to dataPR1 no changePR2 no changePR3 no changePR4 no changePR5 add CR to LFPR6 add CR to LFPR7 add CR to LFPR8 add CR to LF• The examples in this section describe how you can configure the available logical printersusing a standard Web browser. If you want to set them directly by editing the config file,just enter the values for the corresponding parameters.• The examples should only be viewed as suggestions how to configure the logical printers.You should, of course, configure them according to the needs of your network.• In the Parameter List chapter of this manual, you can find a complete list of the printserver’s parameters.