IBM 4216 Personal Page Printer, Model 031

The switches on the back of the printer must be set for automatic emulation switching, as specified in Appendix B of the Personal Page Printer II Model 031 Guide to Operations manual.

The system selects the PostScript, Proprinter XL emulation, PCL emulation, or Diablo 630 emulation without manual intervention.

ASCII files can also be printed using the PostScript data stream.

If you attach the printer to a serial port, you may need to send a special PostScript file to the printer to establish the baud rate, parity, and protocol for the printer. The Personal Page Printer II Model 031 Guide to Operations manual contains a sample file.

Print queues for the Proprinter XL, PCL emulation, and Diablo 630 emulations check the first two characters of each print file. If the first two characters are %!, the file is assumed to be a PostScript file, and the virtual printer for PostScript is used instead of the virtual printer implied by the print queue name. If you have not configured a print queue for PostScript, the print job will fail.

If you want to print a PostScript file as an ASCII file instead of a PostScript file, specify the -da flag and parameter with the qprt command when you submit the print job for the IBM® Proprinter XL, PCL emulation, or Diablo 630 emulations.