Re: MICR printing -- MIDRANGE-L

Paul,

Are you saying that I do NOT need some add-on for the printer to print the
fonts?
I received a firmware patch to the I-O Corp box to allow for MICR printing.
Would not having the MICR toner cartridge cause the printer to send a
negative
response to MICR printing capabilities?

Thanks:)





"Paul Tykodi" <Pdt@nh.ultranet.com> on 10/29/2000 07:11:26 PM

Please respond to <paul@intermate-us.com>

To:   <Steve_Sharpe@ENGELHARD.COM>
cc:
Fax to:
Subject:  Re: MICR printing


Dear Steve,

I am attending Xplor so I can only receive but not respond to midrange-l
posts because my e-mail ID changes when I am on the road. The problem you
are experiencing will need to be fixed for you within the I-O Corp device.
The IPDS data stream is bi-directional and the host that will be releasing
output asks many questions of the target printer before a spool file can be
delivered. One of the questions that will be asked of the printing device
is
MICR capability Y/N? If the IPDS capable print device answers No (the
default for this answer), you will get the messages that you have appended
into your e-mail and you will not be able to send the spool file to that
particular printer.

Many third party print servers that support IPDS printing capabilities
include a parameter that allows an end user to set the MICR answer to
either
Yes or No depending upon their application requirements. This is the
feature
that you need to enable or that you need added to your I-O 5435.

Also please remember that after you can send the spool file to the device,
you will need the special magnetic toner cartridge for the HP printer as
well to make the characters readable to the scanners used in the banking
industry.

HTH

/Paul

>Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:00:16 -0400
>From: Steve_Sharpe@ENGELHARD.COM
>Subject: MICR printing

>Hello all!

>Here is my situation:  I am trying to print to an HP8100 using IO Corp
5435
>AFP/IPDS
>box over TCP/IP.  I am trying to print MICR to this printer and am getting
>the following
>message from the AS400:

>Message . . . . :   MICR printing is not supported or not available on
>device
  >AC11FPOLDX.
>Cause . . . . . :   An error was found while processing file SCHECK#SCS
>number
>0010 in job 533499/S#SHARPE/QPADEV000G. Font character set C0R0AE13 from
> library QFNTMICR2 requires the font be printed using a MICR printer.
>Device
>  AC11FPOLDX is not a MICR printer or has the MICR function disabled. Page
>  000001 was being processed when the error occurred. Processing of the
>print
>  request ended.

>What am I missing?  I am using the MICR font on the AS400 in my DDS file.
>Do I need to
>purchase something (Font chip) for the HP8100 (I thought by using the
fonts
>on the AS400
>it would download to the printer)?

>The printer device description is as follows:

>Device description . . . . . . . . :     DEVD        AC11FPOLDX
>Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :          OPTION      *ALL
>Category of device . . . . . . . . :        *PRT
>Device class . . . . . . . . . . . :     DEVCLS      *LAN
>Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :     TYPE        *IPDS
>Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :     MODEL       0
>LAN attachment . . . . . . . . . . :     LANATTACH   *IP
>Advanced function printing . . . . :  AFP         *YES
>Port number  . . . . . . . . . . . :     PORT        5001
>Online at IPL  . . . . . . . . . . :     ONLINE      *YES
>Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :          FONT
>   Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . :                       230
>  Point size . . . . . . . . . . . :                       *NONE
>Form feed  . . . . . . . . . . . . :     FORMFEED    *AUTOCUT
>Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . :     SEPDRAWER   *FILE
>Separator program  . . . . . . . . :     SEPPGM      *NONE
>    Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :
>Printer error message  . . . . . . :     PRTERRMSG   *INQ
>Message queue  . . . . . . . . . . :     MSGQ        *CTLD
>Current message queue  . . . . . . :               AC14FD
>  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                         QSYS
>Activation timer . . . . . . . . . :     ACTTMR      *NOMAX
>Image configuration  . . . . . . . :     IMGCFG      *NONE
>Maximum pending requests . . . . . :   MAXPNDRQS   6
>Print while converting . . . . . . :     PRTCVT      *YES
>Form definition  . . . . . . . . . :     FORMDF      F1C10110
>  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                         *LIBL
>Character identifier . . . . . . . :     CHRID       *SYSVAL
>Remote location  . . . . . . . . . :     RMTLOCNAME
>  Name or address  . . . . . . . . :               IOPRINTSERVER
>User-defined object  . . . . . . . :     USRDFNOBJ   IOPRINTSVR
>  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                              NEWOBJ
>  Object type  . . . . . . . . . . :                         *PSFCFG
>Data transform program . . . . . . :   USRDTATFM   *NONE
>User-defined driver program  . . . :   USRDRVPGM   *NONE
>Dependent location name  . . . . . :   DEPLOCNAME  *NONE


>Thanks for any and all replies...

Paul Tykodi
Director of Technical Services
LCI-Intermate US, Inc.

p: 603.431.0606 x115
f:  603.436.6432
paul@intermate-us.com
www.intermate.com

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