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P This guide describes how to use the DECprint Supervisor software to print files % and select DCPS and printer features.
- Revision/Update Information: ? This manual supersedes the User's Guide V2.4.
" Software Version:7 HP DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) for OpenVMS, Version 2.5
" Operating System:( OpenVMS Alpha Version 6.2, 7.3-2, or 8.2
! OpenVMS I64 Version 8.2 or 8.2-1
' OpenVMS VAX Version 5.5-2, 6.2, or 7.3
> Hewlett-Packard Company Palo Alto, California
? © Copyright 2005 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
C Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for C possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, C Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and H Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government + under vendor's standard commercial license.
F The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. F The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the E express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. A Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional F warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
A Adobe, Adobe PostScript 3 and PostScript are trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.
C Intel and Itanium are trademarks or registered trademarks of Intel ? Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries.
B Microsoft and Windows are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
1 UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group.
Printed in the U.S.
A The DECprint Supervisor documentation set is available on CD-ROM.
| H Contents | 4B Index |
E The information in this guide is intended for users at all levels of H experience. It contains step-by-step procedures for most printing tasks. 5
; This manual contains the following chapters and appendices:
E The primary source of information about DCPS is the following set of software manuals:
| * Software Installation Guide | $ Describes how to install DCPS. |
| % System Manager's Guide | K Describes how system managers, data center operators and application D programmers can create and manage DCPS print queues and solve printing problems. |
| User's Guide | E Describes how to use DCPS to print to PostScript® printers. |
| : Software Product Description (SPD 44.15.xx) | ? Contains the full list of printers supported by DCPS and D additional information about the features and requirements of DCPS V2.5. |
C For additional information about HP OpenVMS products and services, + visit the following World Wide Web address:
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" " http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/ |
B HP welcomes your comments on this manual. Please send comments to " either of the following addresses:
| Internet | ( openvmsdoc@hp.com |
| Hewlett-Packard Company / OSSG Documentation Group, ZKO3-4/U08 110 Spit Brook Road Nashua NH 03062-2698 |
G For information about how to order additional documentation, visit the ! following World Wide Web address:
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" , http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/doc/order/ |
> Part numbers for DCPS-related documentation are listed in the ; Ordering Additional Documentation appendix of the ` Software Installation Guide, System Manager's Guide and User's Guide. .
2 The following conventions are used in this manual:
| Ctrl/ x | A sequence such as Ctrl/N x indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while 8 you press another key or a pointing device button. |
| [Return] | K In examples, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that you press a J key on the keyboard. (In text, a key name is not enclosed in a box.)K In the HTML version of this document, this convention appears as " brackets, rather than a box. |
| ... | G A horizontal ellipsis in examples indicates one of the following possibilities:
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| ( ) | I In command format descriptions, parentheses indicate that you must B enclose choices in parentheses if you specify more than one. |
| [ ] | N In command format descriptions, brackets indicate optional choices. You L can choose one or more items or no items. Do not type the brackets on M the command line. However, you must include the brackets in the syntax M for OpenVMS directory specifications and for a substring specification ! in an assignment statement. |
| | | L In command format descriptions, vertical bars separate choices within L brackets or braces. Within brackets, the choices are optional; within M braces, at least one choice is required. Do not type the vertical bars on the command line. |
| { } | L In command format descriptions, braces indicate required choices; you N must choose at least one of the items listed. Do not type the braces on the command line. |
| bold text | G This typeface represents the introduction of a new term. It also C represents the name of an argument, an attribute or a reason. |
| italic text | N Italic text indicates important information, complete titles of manuals H or variables. Variables include information that varies in system output (Internal error4 number), in command lines (/PRODUCER== name) and in command parameters in text (where F dd represents the predefined code for the device type). |
| UPPERCASE TEXT | M Uppercase text indicates a command, the name of a routine, the name of 9 a file, or the abbreviation for a system privilege. |
| Monospace text | M Monospace type indicates code examples and interactive screen displays. |
| - | K A hyphen at the end of a command format description, command line or I code line indicates that the command or statement continues on the following line. |
| numbers | L All numbers in text are assumed to be decimal unless otherwise noted. I Nondecimal radixes---binary, octal or hexadecimal---are explicitly indicated. |
- To print files, you need to do the following:
For example:
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" W $ PRINT /QUEUE=MYPRINTER /PARAMETER=DATA_TYPE=POSTSCRIPT SUMMER.PS |
This example specifies:
F The following sections show you some of the techniques you can use to print custom documents.
M 1.2 Selecting a Data Type
4 To specify the data type of your print job, use the 5 /DATA_TYPE=parameter qualifier. For example:
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" H $ PRINT /QUEUE=MYPRINTER /PARAMETER=DATA_TYPE=ASCII |
> You can choose from any of the following data type parameters:
ASCII
ANSI
DDIF
List
PCL
PostScript
Proprinter
ReGIS
Tek4014
@ For more information about the various data types, see Chapters t 4 through Chapter 9.
H If you try to print to a printer model unsupported by DCPS, the printer H is classified as an "unrecognized" printer and while printing ' is attempted, it may not be successful.
G DCPS has a "generic HP" class of printer to help in printing H to new HP printer models. When printing to an HP printer not recognized G by DCPS, a set of paper sizes, tray names and commands to select those E trays, known to work with HP printers, are used. Therefore, features D not available with an "unrecognized" printer are probably A available with an "generic HP" printer. These features G include tray selection and use of the printer's native PCL interpreter. e 1.3 Printing Two-Sided Documents
H Some PostScript printers can print on two sides of each sheet of paper, F also known as duplex printing. You can print a document on both sides G of the paper if you include the SIDES=2 parameter in the PRINT command.
For example:
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" : $ PRINT /PARAMETERS=SIDES=2 MYFILE.PS |
F If the printer does not support two-sided printing, your print job is 2 terminated and the following message is displayed:
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" M DCPS-E-DPLXNOSUP, printer-name does not support duplex printing |
l See Figure 1-1 for an example of a two-sided document."
. Figure 1-1 Two-Sided Printing
m D To specify the page orientation, use the PAGE_ORIENTATION parameter ; with either the PORTRAIT or LANDSCAPE keyword. For example:
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" N $ PRINT /PARAMETERS=PAGE_ORIENTATION=LANDSCAPE MYFILE.TXT |
G Do not use this parameter with PostScript and DDIF files because these B types of files already contain printing instructions that include E orientation. If you include the PAGE_ORIENTATION parameter for these C types of files, your specification is ignored and the print job is 7 printed following the instructions in the file. |
{ Figure 1-1 shows pages printed in portrait orientation. For advanced \ methods of printing documents, see Chapter 10.
e Figure 1-2 shows a page printed in landscape orientation.
1 Figure 1-2 Landscape Orientation
^ E To make multiple copies of a file, use any of the following commands:
H You can print more than one page on each side of a sheet of paper. This A technique saves paper and can also be used to provide customized F printed documents. For example, you can print four pages on each side N of a sheet, as shown in Figure 1-3.
G Use the NUMBER_UP parameter in the PRINT command to specify the number @ of pages to print on each side of a sheet of paper. For example:
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" > $ PRINT /PARAMETERS=NUMBER_UP=4 MYFILE.PS |
N To fit multiple pages on a side, the DECprint Supervisor software changes the D size of the logical pages in the document to fit in the area on the D physical sheet. This change does not affect the relationship of the page height to the page width.
= Figure 1-3 Printing Four Pages to a Sheet (NUMBER_UP =4)
] E You can print a specific page or range of pages in a print job. This H feature may be useful, for example, when you continue a large print job . that was terminated in the middle of printing.
H To print only a specific range of pages from the print job, include the C PAGE_LIMIT parameter in the PRINT command. Include one or two page F numbers to specify the range of pages. For example, to print only the H 50th through the 100th page of a print job, enter the following command:
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" H $ PRINT /PARAMETERS="PAGE_LIMIT=(50,100)" MYFILE.PS |
H Quotation marks are required when the parameter value contains a comma, ( as in this PAGE_LIMIT parameter. |
C The pages you specify do not correspond to the page numbers in the E document. They represent the number of pages that have been printed. B You can print the last portion of this same document by using the following command:
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" E $ PRINT /PARAMETERS="PAGE_LIMIT=(50,)" MYFILE.PS |
M This command instructs the DECprint Supervisor software to start printing at G the 50th page in the document, and continue to the end of the document.
B You can print the first part of a document by using the following command:
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" @ $ PRINT /PARAMETERS=PAGE_LIMIT=50 MYFILE.PS |
N This command instructs the DECprint Supervisor software to print the first 50 pages of the document.
E When you use the PAGE_LIMIT parameter, your print job completes when E the upper-limit value is reached. Therefore, if you specify F the PAGE_LIMIT parameter and do not print to the end of the file, you G do not get a file trailer page for the file that was cut off. The rest F of the data for that file and for any subsequent files for that print job is ignored.
F The maximum PAGE_LIMIT value, for either the starting or ending page,
is 999999. u 1.8 Delays in Deleting an Entry or Stopping a Queue
F If DCPS has problems communicating with a printer when processing a G STOP/QUEUE/NEXT or DELETE/ENTRY request, it may take several minutes G before DCPS considers the request completed. Eventually, however, it I will stop waiting for a response from the printer that the current job has been cancelled. Q 1.9 File Formats
E If you are copying your file from a system running another operating E system to an OpenVMS system and then printing it, the resulting file w must have one of the OpenVMS file formats listed in Table 1-1.
| OpenVMS Record Format | ,Record Attributes |
|---|---|
| Stream | Any |
| Variable length | None |
| Undefined | Any |
| Fixed format | None |
| Indexed | Any |
| Relative | Any |
E When you copy files with binary data, such as images and fonts, make G sure you copy the file in binary mode. For example, use binary mode in FTP or use COPY /B$ from a Windows® system. |
D DCPS allows you to print files that utilize an indexed, relative or sequential file organization.
G Indexed and relative files are accessed sequentially, by their primary G index and relative record number respectively. This is consistent with the TYPE command.
F Indexed and relative files frequently contain binary data. Attempting @ to print files containing such unprintable binary data can give 7 unpredictable and probably undesirable results. |
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