71
PQ-8P, PQ-8S
Although the PQ-8 artificially
produces these missing characters,
at times the “reproduction” may not
satisfy your quality requirements.
5.14.3 P
RINT
Q
UALITY
The PQ-8’s IBM 4214 printer
emulation offers Draft, NLQ (Near
Letter Quality), or Default print
quality for print-quality options. If a
default-print-quality command is
sent from the host, the interface
allows you to specify whether this
default is Draft or NLQ. Set the
desired default print quality through
Host/PC download command 22 or
through the setup software.
If the printer has the capability,
the PQ-8 allows you to further
specify if Draft printing should be
Fast Draft or Normal Draft
(Host/PC download command 23).
Request for Draft printing can come
directly from the host or from the
PQ-8 (host sends Default print
quality and PQ-8’s 4214 Default
Print Quality is set to Draft). If the
printer only offers one draft printing
mode, the setting of the Draft
Printing option is ignored.
Another way to modify the print
quality is to set the printer to a
certain value through its front panel.
When you activate the Override
Format Commands option of the
interface through Host/PC
download command 16 or through
the setup software, the printer’s
front panel settings are “locked in”
and remain valid until the Override
Format Command is disabled.
5.14.4 P
ITCH
C
ONTROL
The PQ-8’s 4214 emulation permits
the printer to print 5, 10, 12, 15, 17.1
and 20 CPI (pitch). The pitch can
vary, depending on the CPI selected
in the host document or the
printer’s front panel.
The 5224/5225 emulation only
allows 10 and 15 CPI printing, and
the 5256 emulation only allows 10
CPI printing, unless the CPI is
overridden at the printer’s front
panel.
5.14.5 G
RAPHICS
P
RINTING
The PQ-8 will print the same
Advanced Printer Functions (APF)
and Business Graphics Utility (BGU)
graphics as the IBM 4214, 5224, and
5225 printers using All Points
Available (APA) bit-image graphics.
This method is for printing
continuous patterns such as bar
codes and logos that come from the
twinax host. This is the method of
graphic printing that IBM used
before IPDS was developed.
Graphics are printed on IBM
System/34, /36, /38 from the APF
and BGU programs and
programmer-defined characters
using the command Load Alternate
Character (LAC).
This capability is supported by
5224, 5225 printers in spacing of
10 and 15 CPI and 4214 printers in
spacing of 10, 12, and 15 CPI.
