If you want to output a screen capture of the current session window on the local printer, you can either select hard copy mode or call up the Windows Copy function in the Edit menu.
These print functions recognize the printer control characters carriage return (CR), line forward (LF), horizontal tab (HT), backward step (BS) and form feed (FF). Any other control characters are not executed; they are output as spaces. To output a screen capture of the current session window
Note that the print output is in the character set that has been set for the emulation (corresponding to the setting for the DSS Mode and Character Set parameters under Configuration > Terminal Settings in the menu).
Message suppression
If the specified country option is not supported by the printer, it switches to the ANSI character set and a message appears to inform you that the printout may contain errors.
This message can be suppressed, e.g. if you are satisfied with the result achieved. To do this, activate the “Message OFF” option under Configuration > Terminal / Printer Settings > Special Parameters for DSS/Printer in the menu.
When using a Windows printer, the print output depends on the Windows version used:
- In standard Windows (Western) the ANSI character set is used, which corresponds almost completely to the ISO 8859-1 character set.
In the Eastern European Windows, the character set 8859-2 is mapped to the Eastern European ANSI character set.
In Cyrillic Windows, the character set 8859-5 is mapped to the Cyrillic ANSI character set.
When using character sets other than the specified 8-bit sets, the print output may contain errors.