IBM® 3816 Page Printer

The system assumes that a font diskette, Feature #7652, is in the printer's diskette drive.

Fonts are loaded into printer memory from a font diskette inside the printer. The system maintains a record of which fonts have been loaded, and whether the fonts in memory may have been corrupted by a print job and therefore need reloading from diskette. If the printer is turned off and then turned back on, run the splp command with the -F ! flag and the device name. This notifies the system that the fonts need to be loaded into the printer's memory.

The 3816 Page Printer can print on paper other than the default 8-1/2 by 11 inch size. The paper size can be changed using SMIT. To change paper size for a single print job, specify the -Q flag with the qprt command.