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Configure Printer Settings Dialog Box for 3270 Printer Sessions

How do I get to this dialog box?
  1. With a session open, from the Quick Access Toolbar, click .

  2. Under Printer Configuration, select Configure Printer Settings.

The options are:

Character translation

Option Description
National character set Determines how host characters (EBCDIC) are mapped to PC characters (ANSI). This setting should match the national character set used by your host system.
Country Extended Graphics Code Select to make additional characters available in the configured National character set. See your host documentation for details.
Transparent mode Select this check box for printer-ready documents that require no page formatting. In Transparent mode, all page format settings (Characters per line and Lines per page) are ignored.
Translate EBCDIC in SCS TRN transparent mode When this check box is selected, Reflection translates EBCDIC characters in the SCS TRN command.
Bypass Windows print driver in transparent mode Select to disable Windows handling of fonts, font size, font style, and lines-per-inch configuration while in Transparent mode.

Flush printing options

Option Description
Flush when End of Job record received Select if you want an in-progress print job to close if an end-of-job condition is sent from the host.
Host print timeout for flushing Specify the number of seconds to wait after the host stops sending data to a printer session before forcing all pending printer output to the printer.

Form feed options

Option Description
Emulate form feed with line feed Select to have Reflection simulate a form feed by issuing line feeds until the end of the page is reached.
Send form feed at end of job Select to send a form feed at the conclusion of host print jobs.

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