Re: Adding a new printer #2

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

OK, since I haven't gotten any hits on this yet, I decided to try to muck my
way through it.  I recreated the outq to specify a "Manufacturer type and
model" of *HP5SI instead of *IBM42011.  That got rid of all the extra blank or
nearly blank pages (except for the very last page that shows:
   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 this is a "feature" of using Novell Netware, but I'm not sure.  If
anyone knows how to turn that "feature" off, please let me know.  This does
NOT print for any other print jobs except for my AS/400 output.)

*** ANYWAY ***, the latest annoyance I'm trying to solve is that I can't get
anything to print in portrait mode.  In prior shops, I've been able to
duplicate the QSYSPRT and QPSUPRTF printer files into a custom library that
sits on top of the system library list and change them to:
  PAGESIZE(88 132 *ROWCOL) LPI(8) CPI(15) OVRFLW(84)
The result is that printouts print in portrait mode, 132 characters across, 88
lines per page, and it looks great!  It's by far my preference.
(I may or may not have fiddled with the "Degree of page rotation (PAGRTT)"
parameter in prior shops, and I tried that here, but nothing works to get it
to print in portrait mode.  Using PAGRTT(90) here only caused the 88-line page
to print at 66 LPP and print on two pieces of paper for each page.)

The physical printer is a Konica copier/printer, model 7033 PS.  The "PS"
isn't actually on the printer, but the printer is defined to Windows as (and
uses a printer driver called) "Konica 7033PS US" which I believe it designates
as a postscript printer.

There are over 100 options for the Manufacturer type and model (MFRTYPMDL)
parameter for the CRTOUTQ command.  I'd really rather not try them all to get
this to work.  Obviously, there's no option for the Konica printer.

WRKOUTQD for the OUTQ I created (thanks Mark!) shows:
  Authority to check . . . . . . . . . . :   *OWNER
  Remote system  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *INTNETADR
  Remote printer queue . . . . . . . . . :   PORT1
  Queue for writer messages  . . . . . . :   QSYSOPR
    Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :     *LIBL
  Connection type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   *IP
  Internet address . . . . . . . . . . . :   nnn.nn.nnn.nn
  Destination type . . . . . . . . . . . :   *OTHER
  Transform SCS to ASCII . . . . . . . . :   *YES
  Manufacturer type and model  . . . . . :   *HP5SI
  Workstation customizing object . . . . :   *NONE
    Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
  Destination options  . . . . . . . . . :   *NONE

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

TIA,

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
(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

Can anyone tell me what I'm missing here?

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952
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