Serial Printer Setup

Serial printers may be preferred at the station and can be used system wide. However, if using RM Redundancy, IP printers are suggested. When installing a serial printer, continue with the following instructions:

In the Spooler Setup, type in a unique name of the printer in the RM Printer Name field.
In the Spooler Setup, type in the computer name that will service this device in the Computer Name field
In the Spooler Setup, choose the “COM/LPT Printer” setting in the Printer Type field

Choose the appropriate com port in the Port Field.

Serial Port Settings- These fields will be filled in by default. Make sure these settings match your port settings in Windows Device Manager. These setting might have to be adjusted depending on the printer connectors being used.

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ADVANCED SETTINGS FOR SERIAL/ PARALLEL PRINTERS

Code Page Translation

For serial and parallel printers there is now a code page translation option. This is used for languages with other character sets. RMPOS by default works with Windows code pages which are different than DOS code pages used by printers. This option allows you to specify the source code page used by RMPOS (should be a windows code page) and a target code page used by the printer. RMSPOOL will then translate the print job from the windows code page to the dos code page before sending it to the printer.

Send Data to Printer in Blocks

This sends the print job to the printer in blocks and then pauses. This option is useful for sites that do not have support for full hardware handshaking. You can get status of the printer via the hardware lines and then use this option to make sure the printer buffer does not get full. You specify the amount of data to send and the pause length. The defaults are set up for a serial Epson printer.

Override Computer Name Detection

You can override what printers to load on the command-line by using the /COMPUTERNAME: parameter. This option is useful for temporarily switching printers from one machine to another. Use this option as follows:

RMSPOOL /COMPUTERNAME: NAMETOLOAD