Print options

General print options

Here you can adjust the Font size and Page orientation so that the print data will have the desired look when printed.

Interpret SDP accented characters

If you are using a print application to deliver print data to your Windows printer with an extended character set, and have used Bull printer terminal mode PRT722X, A2, PRT1220 or DKU7107 (attached printer) to enable it, then 8bit (accented) characters are encoded as SS2 (Single Shift Two) sequences of 7bit characters for transmission. Glink must decode these sequences to single 8bit characters before they are sent to the printer.

There are two alternative SS2 encodings, Esc E and 0x19. The one used depends on how the printer is configured in the mainframe, but in most cases you can simply enable both options. There are specific cases where this doesn't work; for example if the application sends 'transparent' (text) print containing PCL (Print Control Language) to the printer. Print Control Language uses Esc E as a control sequence (print reset), and it must arrive at the printer unchanged. For these applications you must configure the printer in the mainframe to use 0x19, and you would only check the Glink box for 0x19 as SS2. There are also print applications (bar code printers) that use only Esc E for SS2, and expect 0x19 to be delivered to the printer.

There are some non-standard print applications that use Esc E as SS2 but need to send a 'real' Esc E command through to the printer. Glink provides a workaround for this, where you may send the command as Esc Esc E. If you check 'Combine double escapes' the two escapes will be combined and result in a single Esc E being sent to the printer rather than used as SS2. This last option only takes effect if you check the option for using Esc E as SS2.

Note that if you are using G&R/Ggate to connect to GCOS7, then a new G&R printer type has been defined for the GCOS7 Diane systems using PLW internally. If you set your printer terminal type to PRT9220 then all 8bit (accented) characters are sent as a single character, and need no SS2 decoding. You must uncheck all SS2 options in Glink. Ask G&R or Bull for the necessary Diane update level.

Tap the Print data button to return to the print data screen.