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- PRINTSET Copyright (c) 1985, Hawkeye-PC User Group
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- Printset is distributed through "shareware" sources approved by the
- authors. Please feel free to share copies of PRINTSET with your
- friends and associates, but make no commercial use of this software
- without the written consent of the authors. If you find this
- software useful, a contribution of $5.00 to the address below would
- be appreciated! This type of contribution helps bring more software
- into distribution through these channels. Thanks for your support!
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- The developement team: Send your contribution to:
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- Dick Kraemer Dave Brosseau PRINTSET
- Renee Waite Bill Tinsley Hawkeye-PC User Group
- Jan Michael Ken Daiker Suite 201, Cedar Plaza
- Gordon Waite 385 Collins Road, N.E.
- Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
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- PURPOSE
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- The Printset utility was developed to allow easy set-up of
- printer options. Printset can be used either from a command line or
- from a menu. The command line format is useful for batch file set-up
- and for more experienced users. The menu format is provided for easy
- set-up by all users. Also, a "custom" set-up procedure is available
- from using the command line format.
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- USING PRINTSET FROM THE MENU
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- The menu is started by typing PRINTSET from the DOS 'A>' prompt.
- Then press ENTER.
- Press any key to get from the introductory screen to the printer
- menu. Then enter the number of your printer listed on the menu. This
- will take you to the print options menu.
- Mark the options you want by typing the number of the option and
- pressing ENTER.
- To unmark an option entered by mistake, re-type the number and
- press ENTER.
- When all the desired options have been marked, type '0' and
- press ENTER to fisnish set-up.
- Press ESC at any time to end Printset without changing the
- printer set-up.
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- NOTE: NO SET-UP IS SENT TO THE PRINTER UNTIL '0' IS ENTERED.
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- USING PRINTSET FROM THE COMMAND LINE
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- To use PRINTSET from the command line, type PRINTSET followed by
- the name of the printer, followed by the options desired, separated
- by a space. Make sure the printer name and the options are spelled
- correctly as in the list below.
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- EXAMPLE: This will set up an Epson printer for Pica and Boldface.
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- A>PRINTSET EPSON PI BON
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- If you use the command line format and don't enter any set-up
- options, the printer type will be selected and the option menu will
- be displayed. Then choose your set-up options from the menu.
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- EXAMPLE: This will select an Okidata printer and then display the
- options menu.
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- A>printset okidata
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- If anything is misspelled in the command line, the program will
- display the error it found and then return to DOS. The printer set-up
- will not change. Restart PRINTSET with the correct spelling.
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- THE CUSTOM OPTION
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- The CUSTOM option can only be used from the command line. It
- simply allows you to send control characters to the printer. The
- command line format with the custom option is as follows:
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- A>printset epson custom 27 14 bon
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- In the example, 27 and 14 represent the control codes to set-up
- for expanded print on an Epson printer. The control charater must be
- entered as a decimal ascii code. The custom option lets you use any
- set-up code available for your printer. Also, you can use
- combinations of the menu options and decimal ASCII control codes.
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- THE /b OPTION
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- PRINTSET displays colors when a color graphics interface is
- found in the computer. Some people have installed a C/G
- interface, but still use a monochrome monitor. In this
- situation, the colors that PRINTSET tries to generate may make
- invisible characters on the monochrome screen. If you are in
- this situation, use the /b option when running PRINTSET. This
- option forces PRINTSET to use monochrome attributes on the color
- graphics screen. If this option is used, all screen information
- should be visible to the user.
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- For example, the following are valid command lines:
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- printset /b prowriter co
- printset epson /b
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- LIST OF POSSIBLE PRINTERS
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- PROWRITER
- EPSON (All Models)
- OKIDATA-IBM (with IBM compatible Plug'n'Play)
- IDS-PRISM
- OKIDATA (Standard models)
- GEMINI (Standard models-use epson for IBM comp. models)
- RADIO-SHACK
- NEC-PINWRITER
- IBM-GRAPHICS
- PROPRINTER (The new IBM model)
- OKI100-IBMO
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- LIST OF POSSIBLE OPTIONS
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- PI (pica) UOFF (underline off)
- EL (elite) NORM (normal charater set)
- CO (compressed) ALT1 (alternate char set #1)
- PRO (proportional spacing) ALT2 (alternate char set #2)
- EXON (expanded print on) GR (graphics charater set)
- EXOFF (expanded print off) FF (form feed)
- BON (boldface on) 1-6s (1/6 inch line spacing)
- BOFF (boldface off) 1-8s (1/8 inch line spacing)
- UON (underline on) RESET (reset printer)
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- OPTIONS SUPPORTED FOR EACH PRINTER
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- P L L 1/6
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- ------- I L O O X O N 1 2 R 1/8
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- PROWRITER | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | Gr| | x | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- EPSON | x | x | x | | x | x | x | I | | | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- OKIDATA-IBM | x | | x | | x | x | x | H | C | | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- IDS-PRISM | x | x | x | x | x | | | | | x | |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- OKIDATA | x | x | x | | x | x | x | C | C | x | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- GEMINI | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | | | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- RADIO-SHACK | | x | | x | | | x | | | | |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- NEC-PINWRITER | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | | | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- IBM-GRAPHICS | x | | x | | x | x | x | H | | | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- PROPRINTER | x | x | x | | x | x | x | H | C | | x |
- |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
- OKI100-IBM | x | x | x | | x | x | x | x | x | | x |
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- NOTES:
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- BLANK - Feature is not available on this printer.
- X - This feature is available.
- I - Italics.
- C - Correspondence or "Near Letter Quality" mode.
- Gr - Greek character set.
- H - Alternate set differs only in upper 128 ASCII codes.
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- THESE COMMANDS ARE AVAILABLE WITH ALL PRINTERS:
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- NORM - Return to normal character set.
- FF - Form Feed.
- RESET- Reset to power-on default settings (as good as possible!).
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- We encourage you to experiment a little to find out exactly how each
- code works with your own printer. This table was prepared without
- access to every printer on the list. The printers will vary greatly
- in the exact results obtained from the graphics and alternate
- settings. The source code for the printer setups has been included
- on the distribution disk for further study.
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