Screen print uses the default printer environment variable. If
a printer other then the default printer is desired, that printers name needs
to by typed into the displayed lpr command.
Valid resource values are as follows:
- enable
- Allows you to screen print. The Print menu bar choice is displayed on
the menu bar. The default value is enable.
- keyboard_only_local_print
- The user is allowed to screen print using the Screen Print key on the
keyboard. The Printer menu bar choice is not displayed to the user.
- disable_and_hide
- The user is not allowed to screen print. The Print menu bar choice is
not displayed to the user and the Print Screen key is disabled.
The emulator creates a PostScript level 2 printer data stream.
User preference items include the following:
- Target printer will be the configured default system printer or the user
may type another printer name.
- Portrait or landscape
- Image/fax or text print if image/ fax is on the screen
- Printer page size for image/fax printing
When the user selects the screen print, the following text formatting
is done:
- Non-display date changes to blanks
- Attributes change to blanks
- Text assist characters (OV/editor) change to blanks
- ENPTUI characters change to their character equivalents
- DUP character is changed to an asterisk
- Underscore is printed:
- Underscore is used for ASCII for underscored nulls.
- Begin/end underscore commands are used for PostScript.
- Color, intensify (bold), reverse image, and column separators are not
printed.