RE: Tray printing -- MIDRANGE-L

This is for multiple companies across the US and Canada. That is a bit hard
to enforce :-).

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Franz [mailto:franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 12:46 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Tray printing


With such a wide range of printers, you will never get all locations to
print
the same for every application. It's not the 400, it will be the variation
on
how the printer itself is configured, in which data stream, fonts, margins,
and paper control. To start with, I would not waste your time on any
printer not in the list in IBM's Knowledge Base
http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/acf2ee1e9d64b16e8625680b00020389/b4
4a2cf4ba778d83862568250053649f?OpenDocument&Highlight=0,ascii,printer
If you have departments buying their own printers, make an "Approved List",
and include only the ones you have tested. I've gone thru 4 different
rollouts
of pc's & printers for different corps, and the wide variety of unapproved
printers was a nightmare. We got the CEO to co-sign the list!
This list has the "tested" printers that work.

Trays - how is the print programs specifying trays - ovrprtf?.
Are the form sizes "standard"? like 80 column, 132 column, 198 column?
Form length standard?
Are you accessing more than drawer 1 & 2?   envelopes?  drawers 3,4,5?
Is one spool attempting to use multiple drawers?
Any duplex?

jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 12:33 PM
Subject: RE: Tray printing


> Hmmm... the printers range from Sharp, HP, Lexmark, and IBM. We usually
try
> to emulate HP4 or HP5 on the Sharps. They are remote outqs (strrmtwtr).
Host
> print transform is *YES. I don't know what the other 3 do much less use
> them.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Franz [mailto:franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:03 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Tray printing
>
>
> In all of these questions about printing, please post your config:
> remote outq or pjl
> active printer mfr & model (and if config to emulate something else)
> as400 device descr class, type, model
> host print transform yes or no
> workstation customization object
> user defined object
> user defined driver
> image config
>
> also - for tray printing - paper source 1 and paper source 2
> in addition, most printers have a method of printing their own internal
> config.
> and may have specific options for default drawers, or form types
associated
> with drawers
>
> need more to go on
> jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tucker Gerry" <Gerry.Tucker@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:13 AM
> Subject: RE: Tray printing
>
>
> > I'd love to know the answer to this one too.  I've just set up a Genicom
> > 3840E do-matrix printer as a remote writer to print invoices.  The
printer
> > prints the first invoice from the correct tray but then resets itself to
> the
> > manual tray for the second invoice onwards.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gerry Tucker
> > Senior Analyst Programmer
> > Technicolor
> > Wembley, UK
> > Tel: +44(0)208-900-6555
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > ----Original Message-----
> > From: Wills, Mike N. (TC) [mailto:MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 07 April 2003 15:54
> > To: Midrange - Midrange-L (E-mail)
> > Subject: Tray printing
> >
> >
> > We have several printers that we seem to have no control over which tray
> > prints out. We tried this at one time but didn't work. We have them all
> set
> > up as remote outqs. Do you guys have any thoughts?
> >
> > Mike Wills
> > iSeries Programmer
> > Taylor Development
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