Black Box PQ-8S Manual De Usuario

If no page rotation was specified on
the host, the PQ-8’s Automatic Print
Orientation (APO) feature is the
first setting to determine the final
print orientation. This feature
automatically rotates print jobs with
dimensions of 8.5 x 14 inches or
smaller to portrait or landscape
orientation.

a. With the APO feature ON, the

PQ-8 first checks the dimensions
of the host print job. If the print
job is larger than 8.5 x 14 inches,
the PQ-8 cannot fit the print job
on one page. In this case the
orientation of the print job is
determined by the print
orientation setting on the
interface (BLOCK 3).

b. If the dimensions of the print

job are 8.5 x 14 inches or
smaller, the PQ-8 compares the
width to the height and
automatically rotates the print
job to portrait if the height is
larger than the width or
landscape if the width is larger
than the height.

The dimensions of a word-

processing document are specified
directly through the document
format menu. The dimensions of a
data processing report are calculated
in the following manner:

Width = Page Width (in number 
of columns) / CPI

Length = Page Length (in number
of lines) / LPI

The PQ-8’s print-orientation settings
determine the orientation of the
host document/report after the
host’s page-rotation setting and the
PQ-8’s APO setting have been
obeyed.

The available print-orientation

settings are portrait, landscape, and
two COR options. The COR feature
rotates documents to landscape
orientation and compresses the 
font as needed to fit the complete
document on a standard 8.5" x 14"
page. This allows the user to print a
report initially designed to fit on 14
7/8" x 11" green bar paper onto a
standard letter- or legal-size page
without redesigning the report.

When used together, the APO 

and COR features can be a powerful
tool to print host jobs in portrait,
landscape, or if required in
landscape with reduced font 
(COR) without user intervention.