Screen print

 

Screen print uses the default printer environment variable. If a printer other then the default printer is desired, that printers name needs to by typed into the displayed lpr command.

Valid resource values are as follows:

enable

Allows you to screen print. The Print menu bar choice is displayed on the menu bar. The default value is enable.

keyboard_only_local_print

The user is allowed to screen print using the Screen Print key on the keyboard. The Printer menu bar choice is not displayed to the user.

disable_and_hide

The user is not allowed to screen print. The Print menu bar choice is not displayed to the user and the Print Screen key is disabled.

The emulator creates a PostScript level 2 printer data stream.

User preference items include the following:

• Target printer will be the configured default system printer or the user may type another printer name.

• Portrait or landscape

• Image/fax or text print if image/ fax is on the screen

• Printer page size for image/fax printing

When the user selects the screen print, the following text formatting is done:

• Non-display date changes to blanks

• Attributes change to blanks

• Text assist characters (OV/editor) change to blanks

• ENPTUI characters change to their character equivalents

• DUP character is changed to an asterisk

• Underscore is printed:

  • Underscore is used for ASCII for underscored nulls.

  • Begin/end underscore commands are used for PostScript.

• Color, intensify (bold), reverse image, and column separators are not printed.

 

Parent topic:

X resources for the iSeries Access for Linux emulator