RE: IPDS to AFP (was Re: Confused about printing)

[CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Brad,

I'm no expert at this.  But as I understand it, *IPDS is basically a subset
of *AFPDS.  So *AFPDS can do everything *IPDS can do and more.

I've not yet had a problem just changing the printer file type from *IPDS to
*AFPDS and printing it to a HPT printer.

Note, the only catch is a native printer defined TYPE(*IPDS)  AFP(*NO) can
print *IPDS but not *AFPDS.  Additionally to have a native printer defined
TYPE(*IPDS) AFP(*YES) that can handle *AFPDS spool files, you need the extra
cost PSF/400 license program.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Stone [mailto:brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:33 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: IPDS to AFP (was Re: Confused about printing)
> 
> 
> Charles,
> 
> Can you simply change an IPDS spooled file to AFPDS (the
> printer device type attribute of the spooled file) and HPT
> will work?  Or is there more involved?  I haven't work with
> IPDS for a long time.  I would suspect (probably wrongly)
> that there may be some proprietary IPDS information in
> those spooled files?  Or maybe not...
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:24:46 -0400 
>  CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Loyd,
> > 
> > Host Print Transform (HPT) can't handle *IPDS spool
> > files.  You need to
> > change the spool file to *AFPDS.
> > 
> > Leave the printer *DEVD alone.  You don't need AFP(*YES)
> > when the printer is
> > using HPT.
> > 
> > In other words, HPT can't do *IPDS to ASCII.  But it can
> > do *AFPDS to ASCII.
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Charles
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) 
> > > [mailto:LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:04 PM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > Subject: Confused about printing
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I have an IBM 4312 printer I'd like to replace with a
> > Dell 
> > > M5200. Using the
> > > recent "Help! Best Host Print Transform for Dell W5300 
> > > Printer" thread as a
> > > guide, I have set up the Dell as a *LAN/3812 with host
> > print 
> > > transform and
> > > using the *IBMPJLDRV system driver. Currently no
> > workstation 
> > > customizing
> > > object, user defined object, or data transformation
> > program.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > I was under the impression I was able to print IPDS
> > spooled files with
> > > barcodes to this printer, but the system holds the
> > file. 
> > > Also, printing
> > > reports with MULTIUP(2) doesn't; it prints spooled
> > files as 
> > > if the multiup()
> > > were not specified.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Somewhere else I read I could use the barcodes if I 
> > > recompiled the DDS using
> > > spooled file type AFPDS. However, I can't seem to get
> > the 
> > > Dell printer to be
> > > an AFP capable printer with a device class of *LAN and
> > type 3812.
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Is there a "simple" matrix of which spooled file types
> > work with which
> > > printer types?
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > I have two goals with the Dell printer: 1) Support
> > printing 
> > > of bar codes -
> > > how? What's the proper non-IPDS setup for the printer?
> > 2) 
> > > Support printing
> > > of regular spooled files with MULTIUP(2). Is this an 
> > > IPDS-only function or
> > > is this supported with HPT?
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
> > > Loyd Goodbar
> > > 
> > > Senior programmer/analyst
> > > 
> > > BorgWarner
> > > 
> > > E/TS Water Valley
> > > 
> > > 662-473-5713
> > > 
> > >  
> > > 
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