Print Wizard

There are two options here.

If the print file has printer-specific escape sequences in the file, Print Wizard will pass this directly to the printer without trying to format or auto-fit any portion of the print job. So you need do nothing in this case.

If the print file contains control sequences and tag printing that Print Wizard does not see as printer-specific codes, you can still print direct to the printer by including the command-line switch to print to the spooler or to print raw:

/vlevel=spooler       or       /vlevel=raw

Yes, Print Wizard version 3.0 or later supports printing a PCL file directly. The question may be one of what level of PCL is the file in and whether your printer supports PCL. If you are printing to a non-PCL printer, and the PCL codes are for version PCL 5 or earlier, you can turn on "translatepcl" with a command-line switch (or via a "print profile") and Print Wizard will translate this to your specific printer. If you are printing to a PCL printer, and the file contains PCL 5 or earlier, you can either print this direct or with the "translatepcl" command-line switch.

In the terminal emulation world, such as what is supported with our Anzio products (serial, telnet or SSH), remote printing was most often done by passthrough printing, where the print job would "pass through" the terminal session to the locally attached printer. Host applications often supported this as well as the terminal client.

In the case of email, all files are sent as attachments. You can also specify additional files by browsing for them when using the Email Form input screen (through both the user interface and the Print Wizard engine), or by specifying it on the command line for the Print Wizard engine:

printwiz.exe /email=abc@def.com /ac:\temp\file.doc myfiletoemail

Different behaviors may be noticed with different email options. Contact us for more information.

From the Print Wizard user interface, under the Tools menu, you can set up email options as well as the default email method to use. Check mark the default email method that you want as the default.

From the Print Wizard user interface, under the Tools menu, you can set up faxing and the default fax method to use. Check mark the default fax method that you want as the default. You can usually determine if any fax software is loaded by looking at your Control Panel : Printers and Faxes to see if any fax drivers are available (as an example a printer driver called "fax" on Windows XP and later is usually referred to by us as "fax32", whereas one called "WinFax" or "WinFax (Photo Quality)" is usually Symantec's WinFax Pro).

Localhost printing refers to printing through the PC to a local port on the PC as if this PC was a remote printer. Print Wizard supports this by setting up a loop back printer, one that prints out a network port to itself. Refer to our support document on Localhost printing to configure a local printer to do this.

Winsock errors normally come from some network problem that has occurred. Most often causes fit into two different categories: hardware (bad network cards, bad cabling, network down, ..) and software (firewall blocking inbound traffic, Internet security software blocking inbound traffic, personal firewall blocking port traffic, software already using a specific network port, .).

Services are programs that run in the background and "watch" for events to happen. In the case of Print Wizard, this involves watching either for a print job to show up in a specific directory (despooling), or watching for a job to arrive over a network port.

Print Wizard supports two types of services, Foreground Services (previously known as Print Wizard Services) and Windows Services.

You can download the Print Wizard installation program from our web site, or order it on CD. Run the setup program in order to install Print Wizard on your Windows PC. It is as simple as that.

Setting up Print Wizard may involve a little more time however. You do need to know what you are going to be using Print Wizard for and how you will be printing through it. There are also numerous examples included that will help you determine what Print Wizard is capable of.