Black Box 5250 Manual De Usuario

To select any of the functions in Section 1, press the indicated function

key. See Table 7-3 below for a description of these functions.

F1

START/STOP: Press [F1] to start or stop the printer.

F2

TRUNCATE/WRAP-AROUND: In truncate mode, narrow-

carriage printers ignore data beyond 8” (80 columns). In 
wrap mode, the data prints on the next line.

F3

LINE FEED: Each time the [F3] key is pressed, the paper in 

the printer will advance one line.

F4

FORM FEED: The paper advances to the top of the next 

page and resets the line and column counts to one.

F5

CANCEL PRINTER JOB: Sends a cancel request to the 

System/3X host. This will not cancel data already in the 
printer buffer.

F6

USER CONTROL OF PITCH, PRINT QUALITY AND 

LINE SPACING: Defines the pitch, printer quality and line 
spacing for the attached PC printer. Host commands which 
alter these values are ignored.

F7

HOST CONTROL OF PITCH, PRINT QUALITY AND 

LINE SPACING: With this enabled, host commands control 
pitch, print quality, and line spacing.

F8

RE-INITIALIZE PRINTER: Returns to the original printer 

configuration.

F9

BUFFER PRINT: Prints host commands for diagnostics. This 

is referred to as a “hex dump.”

F10

ASSIGN PRINTER TO DOS/HOST/AUTO: Prints only DOS

jobs when DOS is highlighted, only host jobs when Host is 
highlighted, or automatically selects from host or DOS 
when Auto is highlighted.

Shift F1

Shifts from 17- to 15-pitch printing (5219 and 3812 

emulations do not support this function). Only affects dot-
matrix printers.