Generic Printer Tab
Description
This virtual HP-IL device emulates a generic printer.
HP-IL configuration:
| Accessory ID | 0x2E |
| Default Address | 3 |
| Device ID | PRINTER |
The output of the generic printer is shown on the display and can be
logged to a file. Selected text can be copied to the system clipboard.
The virtual generic printer does not support any escape sequences.
Character mapping can be configured.
Device controls
- Device enabled checkbox: If checked, the virtual HP-IL generic printer is available and can be used as HP-IL device. The HP-IL loop must
always be reconfigured after activation or deactivation.
- Log Printer checkbox: Activates writing printer output to the file
Devicename.log in the pyILPER working directory. Output is
always appended to that file. A time stamp in the file marks the start and the
end of each logging. The log file is closed automatically on
program termination.
Tab configuration menu
- Terminal width: Switches between a 80 column and a 120 column
output Note: toggling this option will clear the display.
- Color scheme: choose a black, amber, green or "paper" color scheme.
- Font size: set the font size of the printer output.
If Default is selected, the setting of the pyILPER
configuration is used.
- Scrollup buffer: alter the number of lines of the display scroll buffer. Note: changing this value will clear the display.
- Log buffering: enable or disable buffering of the log file. If log buffering is off the log file output is flushed to disk after an end of line
was encountered. This enables watching the log file output but may decrease
the execution speed of pyILPER considerably.
- Character set: select the character set that is emulated.
For details of character mapping see the documentation of the
terminal tab.