Printing to a File

This is the recommended method for Windows users

Both Windows 3.1 and Windows95 include a printer named "Generic/Text Printer," which prints to a file.

• To print to a file, select Generic/Text Only printer as your default printer
• To print to paper, select your physical printer as the default printer

General procedure

1. Set up your system (you only need to do this once)
   • Configure your telnet software for printing
   • Add Generic/Text Only printer to Windows
2. Select Generic/Text Only printer as default
3. Issue print command in Innopac
4. When dialog box appears, assign filename for "printed" report

Configure telnet software

Set up your telnet software so that it prints correctly to paper. If this is a problem, consult the printing FAQ section on software.

Add Generic/Text Only printer to Windows

You will need to create an icon for the Windows printer named Generic/Text Only. You only need to do this once.

You may need the Windows installation disk(s), so have it available, if possible. The instructions below are for Windows95, but the setup using Windows 3.1 or NT is similar.

1. Open "Control Panel"
2. Open "Printers"
3. Open "Add printer" to start "Add Printer Wizard"
• Local printer
• Manufacturer: Generic
• Printers: Generic/Text only
• Port 'FILE: creates a file on disk'
• Name printer (can use default name or give another one)
• 'Use as default' select 'No'
• Insert Windows [3.1 or 95] disk (if you are asked to do so)
• Complete the installation from the menu

You can check that the settings are correct by right clicking on the icon, then left clicking on 'Properties', 'Details'. The port should be 'FILE', the printer driver should be Generic/Text Only.

Select Generic/Text Only printer as default

When you want to print to file, select the printer Generic/Text Only as your default Windows printer. These instructions are for Windows 95. For Windows 3.1, use standard commands to select default printer.

1. Left click on 'Start', 'Settings', 'Printers' (or Control Panel, Printers) [keep open on taskbar]
2. Right click on icon for previously created Generic/Text Only printer to get the context menu
3. Left click on 'Set as default'. A check mark will appear next to that menu choice

To revert to printing to paper, do the same thing, except right click on the icon for your paper printer, and select 'Set as default' from the context menu.

Issue print command in Innopac

1. Press 'p' to print
2. Select 'attached printer'
3. A dialog box will ask for a file name to print to
4. Enter a file name and close dialog box; the print will go to the file with this name

1. At point of printing in Innopac, select "e-mail printer" and type in your e-mail address. Your login or terminal must be set up in Innopac "login administration" to display the printer option "E-mail printer."
2. Send the file from your email account to your PC by whatever method you normally use.

1. At point of printing in Innopac, select "file save printer" and type in a file name. Your login or terminal must be set up in Innopac "login administration" to display the printer option "File save printer." Your print will be sent to this file.
2. Send the file from Innopac to another computer via FTS
1. A > Additional system functions
2. M > Read/write MARC records (need authorization)
3. F > Send PRINT FILE out of INNOPAC to another computer using FTS. (See Innopac Users Manual rel. 11 #14625 for further instructions. There are no comparable instructions in the rel. 12 manual.) You can send the file to your account on a mainframe, then to your PC, or send it directly to your PC if the PC if you are able to do so.