Innopac Printing FAQ

Producing Customized Reports | Printing to a file

Introduction

Printing issues are perhaps the most complicated and frustrating component of the INNOPAC software, with a wide array of possible solutions and work-arounds. This Frequently Asked Questions (or FAQ) list captures comments and suggestions from other INNOPAC users to assist you with choosing software packages and hardware along with identifying and solving common problems.

There are two main ways that printing is accomplished in the INNOPAC software:

printing to devices through the local PC or terminal (commonly called "Attached" printing)
printing through devices (such as "System" printers) or programs (such as the "E-mail" printer) on the INNOPAC machine itself.

"Attached" printing is likely the most common form of printing used on the INNOPAC. This form of printing uses VT102 Printer Control Codes to 'turn on' the printer, send the print information, and 'turn off' the printer. Because of the combination of the way the INNOPAC software does this printing and the printer support in various terminals and terminal emulation software packages, users see common problems like one line per page, cover pages for each printed page, or no printing at all (as with the Windows 95 Terminal program).

If you have corrections or suggestions for additions to this FAQ, don't hesitate to contact the author.

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowlege the contributions, efforts and resources of:

Doug Anderson, <danderso@cs1.presby.edu>, Presbyterian College
Frank Carey, <fcarey@daemen.edu>, Daemen College
Flora Jeanne Hoch, <fhoch@ccls.org>, Chester County Library
Margaret Lourie, <mlourie@acad.suffolk.edu>, Suffolk University
Peter Murray, <pem@po.cwru.edu>, Case Western Reserve University
Karen Perone, <kperone@roc.rodman.lib.oh.us>, Rodman Public Library
Robert Rasmussen, <ras@nimbus.anzio.com>, Rasmussen Software, Inc.