Specifying Printing Options
What Are Printing Options?
Text strings appended to print commands when printing data on a network printer from a UNIX workstation or a computer are referred to as "printing options" in this manual.
Using printing options, you can specify the RTIFF Menu settings. The settings specified by printing options take priority over the RTIFF Menu settings specified on the control panel of the machine. However, the settings specified in printing options are valid only temporarily, and those settings are cleared and reset to those configured on the control panel, as soon as the output made by the print command is complete.
You can specify printing options with the print command only when TCP/IP is used as the network protocol. For details about printing option specification commands, see Printing Option Specification Command (RTIFF).
When specifying certain printing options, the settings of the RTIFF Menu configured on the control panel of the machine may be applied in addition to the setting specified in the printing option.
How to Specify Printing Options
How to specify printing options differs depending on the command used for printing. When you want to use the "ftp" command for printing from a UNIX workstation, for instance, enter a space after the print command, and then enter printing options without any break.
For example, to switch to RTIFF, feed paper from Paper Input Location 1, set the print quantity to 3, and print an image in the center of the printable area, you would enter the command as follows:
ftp> put "tiff-filename",filetype=RTF,tray=1,copies=3,center
If you want to specify more than one printing option, use commas "," to separate each printing option.
Some printing options require a value to be specified with the option. In order to specify a value, enter an "=" after the printing option name, and then immediately enter the value without a break.
When specifying only one printing option that does not include "=", add a comma (,) before the printing option.
For details about how to use the print commands, see "Device Monitoring" on our website.
If the operating system you are using does not allow the use of "=", use "_" (underscore).
The number of characters that can be used to specify printing options is limited to 1,023 bytes. However, it may be less depending on the environment, such as operating system, network environment and applications.
Data may not be printed properly if you specify an incorrect printing option or a value that is outside the specifiable range.
List of Printing Options
Printing option name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
filetype | RTF | Specifies the Printer Language used for printing |
tray | 1, 2, 3, 4*, 5*, 6*, T | Specifies a paper input location The values with * is ignored when related feeding option is not equipped. |
paper | Paper | Specifies a paper input location loaded with paper that meets the specified condition |
Paper/paper type 1/paper type 2/.../paper type n | Specifies a paper input location loaded with paper that meets the specified condition | |
autotray | No value | Switches to another paper input location if paper runs out |
noautotray | ||
portrait | No value | Specifies an image orientation on the paper |
landscape | ||
600dpi | No value | Selects a resolution |
copies | 1-999 | Specifies print quantity levels |
mag | 0.002-500 | Reduces/enlarges an image in the same ratio in vertical and horizontal orientations |
Paper 1.paper 2 | Reduces/enlarges an image in the same ratio in vertical and horizontal orientations | |
leftspace | ± 30 cm | Specifies the left margin on the paper |
rightspace | ± 30 cm | Specifies the right margin on the paper |
topspace | ± 30 cm | Specifies the top margin on the paper |
bottomspace | ± 30 cm | Specifies the bottom margin on the paper |
xoffset | ± 100 cm | Shifts an image in the horizontal orientation |
yoffset | ± 100 cm | Shifts an image in the vertical orientation |
multicols | 1-10 | Specifies the number of columns for printing multiple images per sheet |
multirows | 1-10 | Specifies the number of lines for printing multiple images per sheet |
xmag | 0.002-500 | Reduces/enlarges an image in the horizontal orientation |
ymag | 0.002-500 | Reduces/enlarges an image in the vertical orientation |
negative | No value | Applies Positive/Negative inversion to an image |
positive | ||
brightness | 0.01-999 | Changes the brightness of a multi-level image (gray scale) |
contrast | 0.01-999 | Changes the contrast of a multi-level image (gray scale) |
center | No value | Locates an image in the center of the printable area |
nocenter | ||
fit | No value | Reduces/enlarges an image to match the printable area |
nofit | ||
tifffit | No value | Reduces/enlarges an image to become a real-size image |
notifffit | ||
autopaper | No value | Automatically selects a paper input location and image orientation on paper appropriate for the image size |
Paper 1/paper 2/.../paper n | Automatically selects a paper input location and image orientation on paper appropriate for the image size | |
Paper type 1/paper type 2/.../paper type n | Automatically selects a paper input location and image orientation on paper appropriate for the image size | |
Tolerance (n %) | Automatically selects a paper input location and image orientation on paper appropriate for the image size | |
Paper 1/paper 2/.../paper n/paper type 1/paper type 2/.../paper type n/tolerance | Automatically selects a paper input location and image orientation on paper appropriate for the image size | |
/freecut or /nofreecut | Prints on the paper in the custom size paper input location that is optimum for the custom size image | |
/speedpriority or /lefpriority or /sefpriority | Automatically selects a paper input location and image orientation on paper appropriate for the image size | |
errorprint | No value | Prints an error message |
noerrorprint | ||
colormode | No value | Prints in color |
monomode | Prints in black and white | |
maxarea | No value | Selects a printable area |
normalarea | ||
printquality | speedpriority, standard, qualitypriority, speedpriorityline | Specifies the print quality |
diskbuffer | No value | Selects a data buffer |
memorybuffer | ||
orientation | Image orientation (0, 90, 180, 270) | Selects an image orientation |
autoreduce | Paper size (a0, a1, a2, etc.) | Reduces an image size to the specified paper size if the image size is larger than the specified paper size |
Margin correction value (± 30 cm) | Specifies an paper size using the Auto Reduce function | |
Ratio exempted (-99% or more) | Specifies a ratio exempted by the Auto Reduce judgment size | |
freesize | Width × height (/tr or /tt) | Specifies custom size in mm units |
magprocess | No value | Specifies whether or not to apply magnification according to pixel reduction or image correction. |
magprocessx | ||
magprocessy | ||
magprocessxy | ||
imagedirection | reverse, normal | Rotates an image on the paper by 180 degrees |
emlimagedirection | reverse, normal | Rotates an image on the paper by 180 degrees |
emlusercode | User code (numbers of up to 8 digits) | Specifies a user code |
emlqty | Sort quantity (1-999) | Performs electronic sorting |
usercode | User code (numbers of up to 8 digits) | Specifies a user code |
pjl | on | Enables printing options (qty) related to post-processing |
qty | Sort quantity (1-999) | Performs electronic sorting |
emptytray | No value | Select if a paper input location that has run out of paper is included for the paper selection. |
noemptytray |