Xerox 4112-4127 Enterprise Printing System-192 - Manual (Page 312)

Specifying print format parameters
4-72 Using LCDS Print Description Language
– Tab widths: When running a tab stock job, you must not
include the width of the tab when specifying the
PAPERSIZE command. However, you must include the
width of the tab when specifying the stock size on the print
server user interface windows or on the printer control
console.
– Switching to tab stock during a job: The stockname
form of a stock specification must be used in the following
instances: a FEED= DJDE; RAUX, RFEED, or COVER
commands; or a selection from the user interface stock
windows.
– Recognizing tab stock: The system processes tabs by
referring to the current stockname at the time that the
page is formatted for output.
Example: If the page satisfies the RAUX criteria and AUX
is specified as a stockname in the ordered stock
statement, the system recognizes this as a tab stock.
Having recognized it, the system then adds n scan lines
(width of the tab) to the paper size in the slow scan
direction for portrait tabs, or in the fast scan direction for
landscape tabs.
– Orientation: The P and L (portrait and landscape)
parameters of the OSTK statement allow you to specify
either orientation. The only one that is supported by the
FreeFlow Print Server LCDS systems is portrait (P) is the
default condition. If you select landscape (L) and you load
the tab stock with the tab at the right edge of a landscape
oriented page, this combination does not run due to jams
induced by skew.
Example: Job 1 starts with Tab 1 (located in the upper
right corner of a portrait page), and Job 2 must start with
Tab 5 (located in the lower right corner of the portrait
page). The number of tabs Job 1 will use is 2.
In order to run the job in succession, you must code the
JSL with MOD=5 and POS=1 for Job 1 and MOD=5 and
POS=5 for Job 2. The system does keep track of the last
tab position in tray 2 at the end of Job 1. Upon starting
Job 2, the printer purges Tab 3 and Tab 4 because Job 2
starts with POS=5 and Job1 used Tab 1 and Tab 2.
– At the time the system makes validity checks for BEGIN
values and graphic positioning, the system cannot
determine if the current physical page is tab stock.