TinyTERM 4.40 added an Extra Printers option to the File menu. With that capability, if you’re using SCOANSI emulation, you can select between up to six printers. Wyse60 allows up to three printers. No other emulation can take advantage of these for transparent printing.

Printer number 1 is still configured through the Printer Setup option on TinyTERM’s File menu. Printers 2 through 6 are configured through the Extra Printers submenu.

In either emulation, it’s based on the “print on” sequence sent by the host. The default “print on” sequences for each, the one used by TinyTERM’s File | Print Setup settings, are listed below. <Esc> is the escape character, ASCII 27:

SCOANSI: <Esc>[5i
Wyse60: <Esc>d0#

To access the extra printers, add two for each to the SCOANSI “print on” code:

Printer 2: <Esc>[7i
Printer 3: <Esc>[9i
etc.

For Wyse60, only the first two extra printers are available, making three total. For each of those, just add one to the “print on” code:

Printer 2: <Esc>d1#
Printer 3: <Esc>d2#

You can then use <Esc>d# to access the current printer in Wyse60, using the digit again only if you need to change the printer. If you haven’t selected a printer yet using any of the “print on” codes listed above, <Esc>d# will automatically select printer 1 as the default printer.

Regardless of which printer you use, the “print off” sequence is the same, based on the emulation:

SCOANSI: <Esc>[4i
Wyse60: ^T

That’s Ctrl-T, ASCII value 20, for Wyse60.

Each printer can have different settings, of course. So the host can select between multiple printers, or one printer with multiple settings.

CR 210, Wyse60
CR 580, SCOANSI

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