Re: Restarting Duplexed AFPDS Spool Does not Duplex

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

please report this to ibm.... I will be going live with something
like this in a few weeks. Lexmark laser with IPDS card,
4 drawers for 4 diff forms and all duplex.

What was the IPDS problem?

jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rick Nardone" <rick@midtel.net>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: Restarting Duplexed AFPDS Spool Does not Duplex


> Basic Background: Printing an AFPDS spool file with multiple customer
> invoices to Ethernet attached laser printer.  Sometimes necessary to
restart
> at a specific downstream page number in that spool file(paper jams, etc).
> IP attached printer, Host Print Transform.
>
> If re-starting a large spool file at a specific page number, duplexing
> parameter on spool file is ignored.  It is there in the spool file
> attribute, but simplex printing results.
>
> If re-starting from page 1 of the spool file duplexing DOES work.
>
> We were relying on the duplex(*yes) spool file parameter via CRTPRTF and
> thought that perhaps the duplexing parameter used in this manner is
somehow
> conveyed in the first page of the spool file only?
>
> So, we changed to DDS keyword DUPLEX(*YES) in the record format for the
> first page of each invoice and still restarting beyond page 1 results in a
> simplex printing.
>
> We are running v5r1, v5r2 upgrade in a few weeks.  Researched/loaded PTFs
> that might solve this(nothing specific found) with no improvement.
>
> IPDS gotcha? Hope not.  Thus far this new process is running far better
with
> HPT than IPDS..
>
> TIA...
>
>
>
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