Printing
There are various printing options available for 3270, 5250, and UTS hosts. You can take screen captures, print a selected screen, and enable and configure host printing capabilities:
The settings available to you regarding page setup and orientation are dependent on your browser options.
Capture a screen
Use the screen capture feature to capture multiple screens then save them as a file for printing or sharing. This option is available to all users once the administrator selects it using User Preferences.
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Navigate to the screen you want to capture.
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Click
to capture the screen. The counter displays the number of captures you’ve taken. Each capture will print to a separate page. -
Click Save to browse to the location where you want to save the capture. Your browser determines how the save option functions. For example, in Chrome, depending on your browser settings, the file will be saved in the download file or you will see a Save As dialog to select a location to save the captured file.
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To append your newly saved screens to an existing screen capture file, click Append and save. When you print the appended file, each screen capture is printed to a separate page.
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You can clear the captures whenever you want by clicking Clear.
Print a screen
The print screen option prints the contents of the terminal screen. It does not print the toolbar or other display information.
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Navigate to the screen you want to print.
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Click Print Screen on the tool bar.
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Use your browser’s print dialog to select the printer and page setup options.
Host printing
This feature is available to 3270, 5250, and UTS host sessions. You can create one or more printer sessions and associate them with the current terminal session. Each printer session is bound to a Device ID on the host system and any subsequent print jobs sent to that Device ID will be directed to the Host Access for the Cloud web client.
The host session builds either a PDF (the default) or text file and sends it to the web client. After receiving the file, the web client downloads the file following your browser’s configured download options. Different browsers provide different options for handling downloaded files. When the file is received, you can direct it to any printer that you have access to.
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An administrator can provide end users with the ability to print by setting the Host Printing User Preferences option.
To configure host printing
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From a host session, click Settings on the tool bar to open the left navigation panel.
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In the left panel, click Print.
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Click Add to open the configuration dialog box. Customize your printer session by using the settings on each tab: Connection settings, Page Setup settings, and Advanced settings.
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Click Save to return to your session. The settings take effect when the session is reopened.
Host Printing topics
- Connection settings: 3270, 5250, UTS
- Page Setup settings
- Advanced settings
- To print your host printer session
Connection settings
By default, printer sessions are available from the printer icon on the terminal session tool bar. If you do not want end users to have access to this printer session, clear Enable this printer session on the Connection tab.
These settings differ depending on your host type.
3270 connection settings
| Setting | Description |
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| Name | Provide an easily identifiable name for your printer session. Required. |
| Protocol | Select the protocol to use. The options are:
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| Device ID | Specify whether you want to use a Device ID, prompt for Device Name or, if you select TN3270E, a TN Association, to link the terminal session with the print session. Required. Select one:
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5250 connection settings
| Setting | Description |
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| Name | Provide an easily identifiable name for your printer session. Required. |
| Device ID | Specify whether you want to use a Device ID or prompt for Device ID:
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UTS connection settings
| Setting | Description |
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| Name | Provide an easily identifiable name for your printer session. Required. |
| Protocol | The choice of DEMAND or MAPPER protocols depends on the type of UTS session you create. UTS session types are determined by the values you supply for the TSAP and Application options on the Connection panel. For example, if you enter values that create a UTS MAPPER or DEMAND session, you should select MAPPER or DEMAND as the protocol. Specify which protocol to use:
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Page Setup settings
The Page Setup tab contains setting options for paper size and orientation, along with dimensions, margins, and scaling values.
| Setting | Description |
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| Paper size | Select the size of paper used by the printer. |
| Orientation | Choose from three modes: Portrait (vertical), Landscape (horizontal) or Auto, which is the default. With Auto selected, the printer evaluates the print job and uses the most appropriate format. |
| Units of measurement | Select the unit of measurement you want to use for page margins and page sizes. The values are inches or millimeters. |
| Dimensions | Enter the number of rows and columns to display per printed page. 60 is the default row value and the column value defaults to 80. |
| Margins | Sets the left, right, top, and bottom page margins. |
| Scaling | Sets the horizontal and vertical scaling for printed output. Increase the percentage to increase the horizontal or vertical space used by the printout. |
Advanced settings
Choose the file output format and the download options.
Output format
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PDF - (default) prints the file in PDF format.
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Text - prints the file in ASCII text format.
Download printer output
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Automatically - (default) The file is downloaded automatically when the print job is complete. When this option is selected, the Inactivity timeout setting is not available.
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Manually - Once a print job commences, you can initiate a download anytime by locating the print job in the download list available from the Print icon on the tool bar and clicking Flush. The print job is aggregated into a single file and downloaded.
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After inactivity timeout - Using this option you can print multiple print jobs, have them aggregated into a single file, and then automatically downloaded when you specify.
If you decide on a value greater than 0 (for example, 5 seconds) any print jobs assigned to a printer that arrive within 5 seconds of each other will be appended to the same file. After 5 seconds and no remaining print jobs, the file is downloaded.
If you specify 0 for the inactivity timeout, each print job is downloaded immediately upon completion. You can always interrupt a print job by clicking Flush.
To print your host printer session
When the terminal session opens, you can now:
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Select the printer session you want to use. All print sessions associated with the opened terminal session are available to you. Click
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The host session receives the print data from the host and builds a file to print. A link to this file is sent to the web client indicating it is available for download.
You can monitor the various print jobs using the tool bar page counter or the counter associated with separate printers in the print drop down list.
The page counter on the tool bar reflects the total number of pages either being actively printed or complete but waiting for the file to download from the server. You can trigger a download by selecting Flush from the printer list.
The page counter attached to printers in the printer drop down list displays the same value but on a per printer basis. The sum of these separate print jobs is reflected in the tool bar count. The count is cleared once the print jobs are downloaded.
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After the file becomes available, the file either begins downloading or waits for you to trigger a download using the Flush option, depending on the options you configured.
If necessary, due to an overlong running print job or some other issue, you can flush your current print job. The Flush option is available from the list of printer sessions accessed from the printers icon on the tool bar. When you flush a print job, whatever has been accumulated so far is printed and processing of print data continues.