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Exception Messages for 5250 Printing

If you are running a 5250 printer emulation code, you may see an exception code display in the printer panel Status box. Refer to the following table for more information.

Code Meaning
10 The data stream control is unsupported or unrecognized.
11 Printing will occur outside the specified left or right margin.
12 An illegal superscript or subscript character was received.
13 The data stream control is not supported unless the Bypass Windows print driver in transparent mode check box is selected.
14 A graphics character is unprintable.
15 The data stream control is not supported while the Bypass Windows print driver in transparent mode check box is selected.
16 Printing will occur above or below the specified top or bottom margin.
17 A control in the data stream is illegally nested.
20 A supported control exists at an invalid position in the data stream.
21 An invalid indent level was received or there is no tab stop at the specified indent level.
22 No horizontal tab stop setting found.
23 The length of a line exceeds the justified right margin or the margin exceeds the page width.
24 Backspacing will occur beyond the leftmost physical print position.
25 Text will be printed below the bottom of the page.
26 Justify control violation.
30 Unsupported data stream control.
31 A required control parameter is missing.
32 An unsupported control parameter has been detected.
40 Invalid parameter value in multi-byte control.

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