Setting device features through the plugin

This page applies to Harlequin v13.1r0 and later; and to Harlequin MultiRIP but not Harlequin Core

Some output devices have user‐configurable features which the user may want to access.

Output device features can be configured using dialogs and PostScript language‐level parameters. Features can be presented in dialogs for the user to change, added to the PostScript language page device so that jobs can change them, and passed back to the plugin so they can be acted upon.

For example, a device may:

• Allow pages to be printed on both sides of the media (duplexing).
• Support multiple media types.
• Have a sorter / binder attached, which can be turned on or off.
• Allow a variety of color raster formats.

The selectors and structures used to implement this are common between input and output plugins, so are separately described in Input and output plugin parameters and plugin dialogs .