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Dear Michael, The AS/400 *LAN device description requires that a target laser printer support Printer Job Language (PJL) commands. This command facility was developed by HP starting with the HP III si printer to control some of the hardware environment configuration (ex. output bins) of their printers. From your description of the Apple Laser printers that you have onsite, it doesn't sound like they support PJL. If this is the case, you will be required to use LPR/LPD on the AS/400, via a remote output queue, to send information to the Apple laser printers. You will need to know the queue name within the onboard Ethernet adapter that LPR information should be forwarded to. It could have a name like pr1 or raw1. You will need to put this name in the remote printer queue name parameter on the AS/400. Please be advised that this parameter is case sensitive. Lower case values must be enclosed in single quotation marks. You can then use the HP III driver on the AS/400 as the host print transform manufacturer type and model choice for converting the data that will be sent through the remote output queue to the Apple laser printer. Hope this helps. /Paul -- 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 Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 15:01:54 -0600 From: Michael Dorr <dorrma@mail.bay.k12.fl.us> Subject: Printer Config Help I need to configure several models of Apple laser printer to print from the 400. The printers include 16/600 PS, Elite 12/600, and 8500. We are connected to all remote facilities via TCP/IP. We run approx 90 Lexmark OPTRA series printers, which are configured as *LAN TCP/IP ASCII printers using CRTDEVPRT. We have had few problems with this config setup. The IBM support line suggested setting the OPTRAs up with CRTDEVPRT as opposed to creating a TCP/IP LPR Remote Writer. I would like to set the Apple printers up in a similar manner. On the 12/600, a config printout shows an LPD port of 515, TCP port 3300, Telnet port 23. It also indicates that it is functioning in PCL mode only. It also indicates that it emulates an HPIII D printer. The IBM support folks said that they need the type/make of network card and remote print queue value. The only net connection I can see is an ethernet twisted-pair transceiver. As for a rmtprtq, I haven't got a clue. Is it possible to set these up using a *LAN type config? Is there any additional info that I need to supply? Any Help/direction would be greatly appreciated! +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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