Re: AFP printing in any printer of just IPDS?!?

["Pedro Manuel Rodrigues" <pmanuel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

   Thanks for the input. Yet, i have one doubt about that. The 
coleague of mine that is working with AFP, following those steps - we 
do have Print Services Facility - can't print to any printer. We 
tried to one connected using LPR/LPD (in a print server) and it didnt 
work, though this i expected. We tried then a second one, also thru 
the same print server, but connected as a true AS/400 system 
printer - Axis Print Server 570 - using APPC, and nothing, third, 
using a printer in a PC, connected using Client Access/400 W95, and 
still nothing. If i look at the device settings in this last case, 
the setting Host Print Transform is *no. Should this be changed? 


Best regards,

Pedro Manuel Rodrigues

> At 04:09 PM 12/3/1997 +0000, you wrote:
> >
> >   Good day.
> >
> >   I just would like to know one thing. Is it and how possible to
> >   print AFP documents to a standard PCL laser printer attached to an
> >   PC, and working in the AS/400 using CA/400? If not, then is it only
> >   possible to IPDS printers? And JetDirect printers? Does anyone
> >   knows a good source of information on the subject - AFP
> >   requirements and limitations, possibilities, and so on?
> >
> >
> >Thanks in advance,
> >
> >Pedro Manuel Rodrigues
> 
> Yes, you can. You need the AFP function on your 400, which means purchasing
> Print Services Facility on recent boxes. You need to say 'Yes' to using
> host print transform on the device description, in the case of laser
> printers. With this, I believe you could even print AFP to Epson dot-matrix!
> 
> For JetDirect, use CRTOUTQ to create a remote outq, using 'raw' for the
> remote queue name and, again, 'Yes' to host print transform. It just works!
> 
> Look at redbooks Printing III & Printing IV for more info.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Vernon Hamberg
> Systems Software Programmer
> Old Republic National Title Insurance Company
> 400 Second Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN  55401-2499
> (612) 371-1111 x480
> 
> 
> 
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