The following information is a supplement to the instructions provided in the Forms and Bar Code Card User’s Guide :
Users can add fonts to printer objects in Forms Manager without having to delete and then recreate the printer object.
Users can download forms to a flash drive. This feature is accessible through the Copy Formsets menu when a flash drive is inserted in the printer. Users can copy all the formsets from the flash drive to the currently configured formsmerge device.
Forms Card enables the printer to capture and send data to a flash drive. The user can enable data capture mode from the printer control panel.
This feature is accessible through the Forms Merge Mode menu.
Forms Card allows merging data with an encrypted formset. The user can specify a PIN for the formset during the upload. When the formset is downloaded to the printer, the user can enter the PIN from the printer control panel.
Enhanced delimiter functionality allows the user to do the following:
Use the page delimiter and lines per page simultaneously
Define the page start line after the page delimiter
Handle the first instance of a delimiter (an option to ignore or use the first form delimiter)
Perform a page break after the nth delimiter
Users can specify cc and bcc recipients when sending an e-mail through the printer.
Users can print faxed or e-mailed documents.
Formsmerge and LDSS are updated to PDFlib version 8.0.2.
Enhanced formsmerge controls make it easy for users to set them on individual ports.
The new system variable, FORMSET@, identifies the name of the formset currently in use. This variable allows the printer to have a debugging or troubleshooting capability similar to Optra Forms TM .
Forms Composer can encode ASCII or hexadecimal values in the header of a PDF417 bar code.
This version of Forms and Bar Code Card has combined AS400 and OFIS filters and an option to the PJL LSETINPUTFILTER command.
This feature is useful when a user wants to merge multiple data separated by FF or CR.
The PJL LPORTROTATE command is not supported when Forms and Bar Code Card is installed.
When downloading formsets with Merge Mode enabled, the formsets are scanned as normal incoming data. This behavior significantly lengthens the time it takes to download formsets to the printer. To improve download time, Forms Manager sends a PJL DISABLEMERGEMODE command to disable Merge Mode while downloading formsets.
Merging is automatically enabled when the formsets download is complete.
Forms Card allows extra parsing capability of the input data stream. The datamap function allows the following:
A string of hexadecimal characters to be specified as a delimiter
The selection of a column range to search for page delimiters
Forms Card can fax or e-mail merged output instead of printing it. This feature is accessible through setting the WorkFlowVars tag in the LFF file for the formset.
Forms Card listens to and merges on printer input ports that users can select. This feature is accessible through the Print Port Setting menu.
If a port is set to Off, then the forms data sent on this port is not merged.
If a port is set to On, then the forms data sent may be merged depending on the formsets and activation conditions loaded into the printer.
Users can plug a flash drive into the front USB port on a supported printer and use formsets stored on that flash drive for formsmerge operations.
Through Lexmark Forms Job Ticket (LFJT) support, Forms Card allows users to specify RFID printer options when printing a merged e-form. LFJT is a simple XML format for specifying those options.
LFJT is embedded into the merged PDF by the Forms Card firmware. The PDF interpreter inside the printer parses the PDF.
Users can print information about all the formsets stored on the printer and some printer-specific information. This feature is accessible through the Print All Forms menu.
Users can set vertical text centering in Forms Manager. Users can center-align text objects vertically, eliminating using extra lines within the text element to push the text downward. The text is aligned within the boundaries of the object.
Forms and Bar Code Card accepts three types of data: text, SAP Raw Data Interface (RDI), and TAGJOB.
Users may incorporate other data streams by using a data filter to remove characters. For more information, see Data filters .
If a data filter is enabled, then the incoming forms job is run through that filter before the card processes it.
Data filter |
Description |
---|---|
Disabled |
Indicates that all data filters are off. |
NULL |
Removes all null characters from the data stream. |
OFIS |
Removes the following Optra Forms init strings from the data stream: <0x1B>%-12345X@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=POSTSCRIPT <0x01>M%PS (LexForm) run Bs or %!PS-ADOBE (LexForm) run startup |
OFIS + NULL |
Removes all null characters and Optra Forms init strings. |
AS400 |
Removes extraneous lines of data due to AS400 formatting. |
PCL |
Removes all PCL 5 emulation escape sequences and leaves the text data. |
ZPL |
Removes all ZPL escape sequences and leaves the text data. |
ZPL-F |
Performs the same actions as ZPL, except that it uses " @ " as the format instruction prefix. |
For supported fonts, Forms Card uses the appropriate font file.
For recognized fonts, Forms Card applies a similar font file.
For unsupported fonts, Forms Card does not print them.
Simplified Chinese is a supported double-byte character set (DBCS) language. The SimHei and the SimSun fonts are supported. For more information on supported and recognized fonts and font files, see Single-byte Forms Card fonts .
This font is used for standardized testing forms that are optically read for grading purposes. It is available in Forms Composer when OCR-B in Bubble font is used.
The following is a character map for use while designing the formset:
20 |
21 |
22 |
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25 |
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29 |
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39 |
3A |
3B |
3C |
3D |
3E |
3F |
40 |
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42 |
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44 |
45 |
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49 |
4A |
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4C |
4D |
4E |
4F |
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51 |
52 |
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59 |
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5C |
5D |
5E |
5F |
60 |
61 |
62 |
63 |
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65 |
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68 |
69 |
6A |
6B |
6C |
6D |
6E |
6F |
70 |
71 |
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79 |
7A |
7B |
7C |
7D |
7E |
7F |
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88 |
89 |
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8B |
8C |
8D |
8E |
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91 |
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99 |
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9C |
9D |
9E |
9F |
A0 |
A1 |
A2 |
A3 |
A4 |
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A6 |
A7 |
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AD |
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AF |
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B1 |
B2 |
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BB |
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BD |
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BF |
C0 |
C1 |
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C7 |
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C9 |
CA |
CB |
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CD |
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CF |
D0 |
D1 |
D2 |
D3 |
D4 |
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D9 |
DA |
DB |
DC |
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DE |
DF |
E0 |
E1 |
E2 |
E3 |
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EB |
EC |
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F0 |
F1 |
F2 |
F3 |
F4 |
F5 |
F6 |
F7 |
F8 |
F9 |
FA |
FB |
FC |
FD |
FE |
FF |
Forms and Bar Code Card supports multiple code pages. For more information on supported fonts, see Single-byte Forms Card fonts .
Because the user’s computer font list is richer than the printer font list, a user can easily create a form where not all characters are printed. The user can stipulate a supported code page using Forms Composer.
The following font families support the international character set:
Intl-Courier
Intl-CG Times
Intl-Univers
Arial MT
Times New Roman PS MT
These font families complement any code page selected and result in almost every character printing.
When printing a formset that uses an international character set, print a sample first to make sure that all the characters are printable.
If an error occurs, then forms jobs are not printed. If "Error page Print" is on, then the error page is printed.
After the error is cleared, the print job continues to print unless another error occurs.
For print jobs with multiple errors, each error must be cleared individually.
Sample error page
For a list of error codes and their solutions, see Error messages and their types and solutions .
Forms and Bar Code Card places forms files on the printer in the formsmerge directory. These files are visible if the user prints a directory page from the printer control panel.
Do not tamper with these files.
Forms and Bar Code Card supports pie, horizontal, and vertical (stacked and unstacked) charts.
Forms and Bar Code Card supports both hyphen and underscore variables.
When a large number is used, the border area exceeds the chart border area.