Pertech 5300 Manual Do Utilizador

If the printer icon in the printers folder is clicked with the 

right mouse button and Printing Preferences selected 

the various parameters to do with the document may be 

modified.  This dialog box is also usually available from 

within  an application within its printer setup.  Note that 

the current application’s Printing Preferences will over-

ride any set by other applications.

This defaults to journal and refers to how the job should 

be printed.  There are three main choices:

Journal Mode.  This is a standard mode of Windows op-

eration and simply means that the job will be printed on 

the journal roll with a fixed page length - set in the Paper 

length box.  (Applications can select “Journal” mode 

when dmPaperSize = 257).

Continuous Mode.  This is a special mode of opera-

tion which permits the journal roll to be used but without 

a fixed page length.  In practice there is a maximum of 

approximately 24 inches (600mm) after which the driver 

will insert top and bottom margins before continuing.  To 

minimize this effect, top and bottom margins should be 

set to zero in “Continuous” mode.  Headers and Foot-

ers in this mode will also give unpredictable results and 

should therefore be avoided. (Applications can select 

“Continuous” mode when dmPaperSize = 258)

Validation Mode.  Selection of this mode will cause the 

print job to be printed on a Validation slip, which must 

be manually inserted into the slot in the printer. (Applica-

tions can select “Validation” mode when dmPaperSize = 

259).

If this box is checked then all jobs will be sent to the 

printer last line first and upside down.  This mode is  usu-

ally employed when printing on certain validation 

jobs.  It is not available if “Continuous” mode is selected.

This specifies if the Bill Out setting in the Printer Con-

figuration should be used at the end of a document, the 

end of a page or not at all.  The default setting is the end 

of a document. In most applications the bottom margin 

setting is used unless it is set to zero, in which case the 

bill out distance is used.

This can be set to 160 Dots Per Inch or 80 Dots Per 

Inch.  160 DPI will yield  better printer quality but use 

more ink than 80 DPI.  Graphics and True Type fonts will 

also print slower at 160 DPI.  The InkJet models resident 

fonts (when used) will also change quality between 80 

DPI.  (Applications, such as Visual Basic, can use the 

PrintQuality attribute to select.  i.e. vbPRPQHigh and 

vbPRPQMedium select 160 Dpi mode and vbPRPQLow 

and vbPRPQDraft select 80 Dpi).

Clicking this button gives version information about the 

driver.

This page allows raw printer commands to be sent to the 

printer in addition to the Windows print job.  Since the 

5300 printer driver is designed for printers configured for 

the ACL command language, please refer to the “5300 

Printer Series  ACL Programming Manual” for a list and 

description of commands that are available.