The RTA system comes with several pre-defined printers. Many times, if printers have already been installed and configured on your computer system or network, no additional printer configuration is required. Setting up a new printer is a snap since the Windows Print Manager handles all the print jobs. Before setting up printers, it may be helpful to understand some configurations in the RTA program.
The Windows Print Manager takes over the print job; therefore, RTA only needs to send the print job to the Windows print SPOOLER (see above configurations). No printer escape codes are needed in lines A - J in printer records (SPM). When print jobs are sent out, they are formatted according to the printer codes based on the print driver installed on your computer or network. If you want to override the print codes from the print driver, then the print job needs to go SPOOLER-DIRECT (see above configurations) and the desired printer escape codes need to be defined in lines A – J for the appropriate printer record (SPM). Part tags and bin labels are examples of print jobs that need to go SPOOLER-DIRECT because special codes must be sent to the printer to format the bar codes and label sizes properly.
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To add a printer record, do the following:
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The second part of the code, the printer escape codes, specifically formats the printer output. For example, to format a dot-matrix printer for compressed printing, a code of 15 is needed; to format an HP laser printer for compressed printing, codes 27 38 107 50 83 are needed. Again, refer to your printer manual for the codes needed to format your printer output as desired.
NOTE: A value of 32 is displayed when no printer escape codes are defined.
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The following ASCII conversion chart has been provided to help you decipher terminal and printer codes.
ASCII | Character | ASCII | Character | ASCII | Character | ASCII | Character |
32 | Space | 62 | > | 92 | \ | 122 | z |
33 | ! | 63 | ? | 93 | ] | 123 | { |
34 | " | 64 | @ | 94 | ^ | 124 | l |
35 | # | 65 | A | 95 | _ | 125 | } |
36 | $ | 66 | B | 96 | ` | 126 | ˜ |
37 | % | 67 | C | 97 | a | ------ | Control |
38 | & | 68 | D | 98 | b | 1 | A |
39 | ` | 69 | E | 99 | c | 2 | B |
40 | ( | 70 | F | 100 | d | 3 | C |
41 | ) | 71 | G | 101 | e | 4 | D |
42 | * | 72 | H | 102 | f | 5 | E |
43 | + | 73 | I | 103 | g | 6 | F |
44 | , | 74 | J | 104 | h | 7 | G |
45 | - | 75 | K | 105 | i | 8 | H |
46 | . | 76 | L | 106 | j | 9 | I |
47 | / | 77 | M | 107 | k | 10 | J |
48 | 0 | 78 | N | 108 | l | 11 | K |
49 | 1 | 79 | O | 109 | m | 12 | L |
50 | 2 | 80 | P | 110 | n | 13 | M |
51 | 3 | 81 | Q | 111 | o | 14 | N |
52 | 4 | 82 | R | 112 | p | 15 | O |
53 | 5 | 83 | S | 113 | q | 16 | P |
54 | 6 | 84 | T | 114 | r | 17 | Q |
55 | 7 | 85 | U | 115 | s | 18 | R |
56 | 8 | 86 | V | 116 | t | 19 | S |
57 | 9 | 87 | W | 117 | u | 20 | T |
58 | : | 88 | X | 118 | v | 21 | U |
59 | ; | 89 | Y | 119 | w | 22 | V |
60 | < | 90 | Z | 120 | x | 23 | W |
| 61 | = | 91 | [ | 121 | y | 24 | X |
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To change a printer record, do the following:
- Select System > Setup Printers > File Maintenance from the RTA main menu (SPM).
- Enter password level 3.
- Enter a printer ID or press F1 to select a printer from the lookup list.
- Make the changes as needed.
- Save the changes.
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To delete a printer record, do the following:
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