RE: Printing a MS Word document to an AS/400 printer...

["Graap, Ken" <keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>You are about to be dragged, kicking and screaming into a
>GUI environment. You must install Operations Navigator on
>one PC.

I got this working... Thanx for all your help.

For anyone interested... I had to do the following:

1. I had to download a printer driver that would work for the 
    PC OS I had (Windows/2000) ... I went to www.ibm.com and did
    a search on Printer Drivers... I was pleasantly surprised 
    to find an AFP driver for an IBM 3900 printer!

2.) I downloaded and installed the printer driver using the instructions
     that came with it.

3.) Via the OPS Nav interface: Network/Servers/TCPIP ...
        I opened AS/400 Netserver and defined a printer share.
      I needed to know several things to do this.
        a.) The *OUTQ I wanted to spool to.
        b.) The Print Driver Name (IBM AFP 3900 - from step 1)
        c.) A printer file name (I used QGPL/QPRINT)

4.) I then added a new printer to my PC using the Start/Settings/Printer
     tab ... I just configured a network printer and selected the one
     I defined as being sharable on my AS/400 (See step 3).
     The install process eventually asked to tell it where it could
     find the print driver and I was able to use the browse button 
     to locate the one I installed in step 2.....

That's it!  When I sent a Word document to this printer, it was spooled 
to the AS/400 and the operator printed it. It looked great... A little
less quality than my 600DPI HP printer, because the IBM 3900 printer is only
a 240DPI printer, but that's ok... Now I can print that 50,000 page mail
merge document that started me down this path...

Kenneth

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Kenneth E. Graap
IBM Certified Specialist
AS/400 Professional
Network Administrator
NW Natural (Gas Services)
keg@nwnatural.com
Phone: 503-226-4211 x5537
FAX:    603-849-0591
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-----Original Message-----
From: rob@dekko.com [mailto:rob@dekko.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 2:12 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Printing a MS Word document to an AS/400 printer...
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