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Additional Information 2
How to Connect a Printer
You can use a printer connected to the parallel port on the rear panel of
your mainframe, see Input and Output Connectors on page 335 for a
diagram of your mainframe’s rear panel.
You can use either of the following printer types:
•
<HP PCL>, a printer that uses the Hewlett-Packard Printer Control
Language, or
•
<EPSON 8 pin>, a printer that is compliant with Epson 8 pin printers.
To set up the printer, perform the following steps:
1 Set up your printer as described in your printer’s User’s Guide.
2 Connect a parallel cable between your printer’s parallel connector to
the parallel port on the rear panel of your mainframe, see Input and
Output Connectors on page 335 for a diagram of your mainframe’s rear
panel.
3 To select a printer type, see How to Select the Printer Type on page 89.
You can then print out any of the following information:
•
a help screen, see How to Get Help on page 50,
•
data from an application, see Printing Application Measurement
Results on page 307.
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