UNIXSection 8: Setting Up - UNIX AXIS 5600 User’s Manual88Using Logical Printers to Customize your PrintingThe AXIS 5600 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 AXIS 5600:• 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 changethe print data before being sent to the printer port. There are eightlogical printers (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 LFcontrol characters:Each logical printer can be set up using any Java enabled Web browseror by directly editing the config file.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
