Re: Printing from AS/400 to Laserwriter 8500 via tcp/ip

[pault@xxxxxxxxx (Paul Tykodi)]

Date:   Wed, 21 Oct 1998 14:33:52 -0500
From:   Kirk Yates <yatesk@pattonville.k12.mo.us>
Subject:        Printing from AS/400 to Laserwriter 8500 via tcp/ip

Hello,
I'd like some configuration assistance for connecting an Apple Laserwriter 8500 
to an AS/400 via tcp/ip.  Is this possible?
Thank you,
Kirk Yates

Dear Kirk,

I have appended some e-mail's that were posted to midrange-l earlier this year 
about generating PostScript output from an AS/400 to the bottom of this 
response. The Apple Laserwriter 8500 only supports PostScript Level 3 so you 
cannot use an AS/400 *LAN device description to drive the Laserwriter 8500. You 
will need to create a remote output queue description on your AS/400 and then 
send PostScript information from the AS/400 to the Apple Printer.

Hope this helps,

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019

Old midrange-l e-mail about PostScript begins here

Date:   Wed, 11 Feb 1998 00:04:20 -0500
From:   Brian Lawson <blawson@hjmsys.com>
Subject:        Re: Postscript Printing

Hi all:
I used Postscript to create my AS/400-based invoice print.  The trick is
to get
the AS/400 to perform ASCII to EBCDIC only.  Create the printer with
Host Print
Transform = *YES and use the Work Station customizing object of
QWPDEFAULT.  Then
just use RPG to create the Postscript output.

HTH,
Brian Lawson
HJM Systems, Inc.
blawson@hjmsys.com

Christina Gonzalez wrote:
>      Hi,
>      One of my colleagues here would like to know if it is possible to do
>      Postscript Printing from an AS400.  We have an Apple Laser Printer
>      that we are trying to connect to the AS400 via Ethernet using TCP/IP
>      protocol.  We are running v3 r7 on a 530.
>
>
>      We can telnet and ping to the printer from the AS400 but when we try
>      to send text to be printed, it disregards it.  Nothing comes out of
>      the printer.
>
>      Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>      Chris Gonzalez
Date:   Wed, 11 Feb 1998 14:45:11 -0500
From:   Brian Lawson <blawson@hjmsys.com>
Subject:        Re: Postscript Printing

Hi Guy:
Nothing fancy . . you actually have to write the Postscript code and put it in 
your output specs.  I used MS Word to generate the complicated stuff then I 
optimize it and paste it into my RPG code.
Brian Lawson
HJM Systems, Inc.
blawson@hjmsys.com

Guy Murphy wrote:
>      I guess I'm betraying my techical ignornace here, but how do you
>      create a Postscript output with RPG?
>
>      Guy Murphy         University of Illinois - UDIS
>                         217-333-8670
>                         murphyfa@uiuc.edu

Old midrange-l e-mail about PostScript ends here


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