Print Settings
Print page provides Printer Settings to select either local or remote printers, print font selection for the print-out and printer controller. Fig.1 shows this page.
Print Mode -- Print mode supports several particular printing modes:
Normal: This is the default mode indicating nothing from host will be printed.
Auto Print: In this mode, all the information displayed on the session screen will be automatically printed out until the print operation is aborted.
Transparent Print: In this mode, data from the host are sent only to the printer (nothing shows on the terminal screen
Print to -- You have three ways to do the actual printing when print job received from the host(as Fig.):
Print Driver: All characters received from the host are sent to Windows printer driver without any modification. You can select the printer using the "Printer Settings" box. This is the default option. You need to make sure you printer is configured properly in the Windows system and selected by KoalaTerm.
Redirect to Windows: All characters received from the host will be processed by KoalaTerm first, then sent to Windows printer. KoalaTerm will make use of the printer format settings and the printing font you specified. This option is commonly used when all the data from the host are text, and you want to print out using particular font and printer settings.
Direct to Port: All characters received from the host will be sent to the specified printer port directly without any processing. This option is useful when all you need is a printer port connection and you host takes care of all the formatting and controlling things.
Print Font -- The print font specified here is only effective when the "Print To" is set to "Redirect to Windows" (see the following illustration).
Printer Settings -- To select and set up a printer either local or remote.
Direct to Port -- To select a printer port from the drop list when the "Print To" mode is set to "Direct to Port" (see the following list).
Job Timeout -- This label is used when the print model is transparent. Sometimes the host switch between printing mode and non-printing mode quite frequently and there is no indication of end-of-job. KoalaTerm uses a timeout to determine when to finish a job. By default the timeout value is in five seconds. You can specify zero here if you want to print out immediately, but might cause the last one page could not be printed out.
Send FF While Finish -- When this option is checked, KoalaTerm will send a "Form Feed" control to a printer (automatically feed the paper to printer after the proceeding one is finished). Most likely it will cause the printer to print out two paper at a time if your printer setting has its own "Form Feed" ability.