How To Print

To print, simply write to the LP: driver. When the LP: driver is subsequently closed, you will be presented with the Print Style dialog where you can select things like the page orientation, and the Print Job dialog where you can select the page range and number of copies. The file is then printed.

Example

pip lp:=errormsg.sys
asm sy1:prog,lp:=sy1:prog/page:45


Manually Closing a Print Job

If you cancel a program that's printing to the LP: driver, and HDOS clears the file channel rather than closing the file channel, the LP: driver won't be notified and can't cause the emulator to close the temporary spool file. This will also happen if you reset the H8 system while a print job is underway.

When this happens, you can use the menu item "Close Print Job" to close the print job manually.This menu item is enabled only when there is a channel open to the LP: driver. (Ref: File Menu)

Specifications

The printer defaults to 10-point Courier font for 12 characters per inch. The default margins are 1/2 (36 points) on all four sides of the page; see Emulator Preferences to change the default margins. Tab stops are fixed on 8-character boundaries, just like the terminal.

Both portrait and landscape printing are supported. The number of lines you will get per page will vary among the various Macintosh printers and drivers available; do a test print and adjust from there. The maximum line width supported by the emulator is 150 characters.

Refer to the Printer Documentation page in the Programming Information section for a list of control characters and escape sequences that the printer responds to.