Re: Adding a new printer #2

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

D.BALE@handleman.com wrote:
> 
> (Mark, thanks for the offline help in setting up the outq for the Konica
> printer!)
> 
> OK, got the Konica printer outq setup on our V3R2 system:
>    CRTOUTQ OUTQ(QGPL/KONICA_IT)
>            RMTSYS(*INTNETADR)
>            RMTPRTQ(PORT1)
>            AUTOSTRWTR(1)
>            CNNTYPE(*IP)
>            DESTTYPE(*OTHER)
>            INTNETADR('nnn.nn.nnn.nn')
>            TEXT('Konica printer')
> 
> Sent a 4-page 132-wide 66-line printout to the outq and got 24 pages printed
> out, most of them blank or with a single character printed in the very top
> left of the page.  It printed in portrait mode at 10 CPI, causing the lines to
> get truncated at 80 characters.  It appears that each of the four spool pages
> was prefaced with 3-7 pages with no data or one character.  The last page was
> 4 lines:
> 
>    User: BALED            <---------- my user id
>     Host: DEVD60.HDL.D60  <---------- ??? AS/400 name to the network ???
>     Class: nnn.nn.nn.nnn  <---------- my IP address
>     Job: QPPGMDMP         <---------- the spooled file I printed

I suspect you need the Host Print Transform option added to the printer
description. You may also have to fool around with a WSCST object to 
get the proper printer stream sent to the Konica...
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