Printer forms can be designated in an effort to prevent your printer from printing a print job on the wrong paper. The printer forms you define are used as you set up print job configurations. For example, you might want some jobs to be printed on letter-size sheets of paper and others on green-bar continuous-feed paper.
Printer forms include information about the length and width of different types of paper used in your printer. The print server operator is notified when a form change is needed. Printer forms are configured in PRINTDEF or NetWare Administrator.
When a print job requests a printer form other than the form currently mounted in the printer, the print server does not service the job until a print server operator reports that the new form is mounted. A print server operator can use PCONSOLE, PSC, or NetWare Administrator to mount the new form.
Printer form names must begin with an alphabetic character and can have up to 12 alpha-numeric characters. Form numbers can range from 0 to 254. Form length can range from 1 to 255. Form width can range from 1 to 999. These numbers are for your reference only.