The Printer communication point enables the printing of plain text and PostScript (PS) documents. In order to locate network printers, the Rhapsody service must log on to the system as a user with sufficient privileges to use the print services. Printers must then be installed for that user to allow Rhapsody to include them in its list of known printers.
During installation, it is possible to choose an existing user to log on to the system. If the service has already been installed, the user can be changed (under Windows®) by opening the service control panel applet and navigating to the properties of the service. Since the Printer communication point uses the operating system and printers' printing capabilities, only documents supported natively can be printed; for example, the direct printing of PDF is not supported.
Supported Operational Modes: Output.
Output Mode Properties
Property |
Description |
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Printer Name |
The name of the selected printer. The Rhapsody service must be running as a network account with appropriate access rights for printers available on the network to appear in this list. In order to print PS documents, the selected printer must have installed drivers that support the requested action. If you set the Printer Name field to a |
Number of Copies |
The number of copies to be printed. The default value is |
Paper Size |
The paper size of the printout. The default value is |
Document Type |
The type of document that is to be printed:
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Font Name |
The desired font for the printout. |
Font Size |
The size of the font in the printout. The default value is |
Font Style |
The font style of the printout:
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Line Space Factor |
The spacing between lines in the printout. The default value is |
Page Orientation |
The page orientation of the printout:
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| Handling Printer Errors | Determines whether printing errors should be treated as a message error or connection error:
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