RE: Printing images from the /400 -- MIDRANGE-L

Ok,

My interest was peaked about this issue.  So I opened a PMR with IBM.

- PSF/400 is not used when printing to *ASCII printers via Host Print
Transform (HPT)
- HPT does not support the AFPRSC keyword.
- *AFPDS spool file transformation to PDF is accomplished by PSF/400 and
Infoprint server.


So you have two choices from IBM when dealing with the AFPRSC:

- PSF/400 and *IPDS capable printers
- PSF/400, Infoprint Server and PDF capable printers.



Third party products might increase your options.


References:
http://www-912.ibm.com/n_dir/nas4apar.nsf/c79815e083182fec862564c00079d1
17/65611dda1e4a84ca86256d08006bc80d?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,II13564
Or http://tinyurl.com/g9a5l

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.nsf/62c08e2c0bfd35a886256b100068dd6
1/e2adf37df506bae386257058004548a0?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,386864454
Or http://tinyurl.com/kdyrx

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/acf2ee1e9d64b16e8625680b0002038
9/fab3c2d926073a37862570dc007b6608?OpenDocument
Or http://tinyurl.com/e9hun




HTH,
Charles

-----Original Message-----
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mlazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:19 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Printing images from the /400

Pat,

 There are some good references in there.  

 Realistically, going with *IPDS printers is not an option.  
It needs to
work on the (much) cheaper HP type printers, so that remote 
offices can
print their own

 Can this be done with just PSF/400 and not InfoPrint Server? 
 Or is IPS
part of PSF?  Do you know approximately how much PSF/400 costs for a
570-7489?

 Even with PSF/400, what would the process be to output 
EBCDIC text, output
TIFF image, output more text, etc?  Is there an API that 
would be called to
import and then output the image?

 -mark

Original Message:
-----------------
From: Pat Barber mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:36:42 -0400
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Printing images from the /400

You will need to do a bit of reading on AFP to make this
work. Start looking at Printing VI and look at the chapter
6 on converting images to be used in AFP.(TIFF,JPEGS,etc)

You "might" fool around with various methods and get those
pictures to print, but AFP would make it a good bit more
easier to deal with.

http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublishe
d/afpoverview_
ww

When you want to deal "other" things outside of the normal data
stream, AFP is the answer in my opinion.

http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/comnelit.nsf/vwfilebyinde
xname/rhhxplor
2002?OpenDocument&site=ww&
http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublishe
d/iseriessoftw
are_ww

I would also recommend a fully supported IPDS printer. I would not
attempt to do this with a networked ascii printer(HP,Lexmark,etc).

In your case, more of everything is better.

PSF/400 is required for almost all networked printers and
is required to make the AFP magic work.

http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublishe
d/psfhome_i_ww
http://www.printers.ibm.com/internet/wwsites.nsf/vwwebpublishe
d/psfdata_i_ww

Note the document with "pictures" in the examples...

mlazarus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Doug,

 Would it matter whether this is going to an *IPDS or *ASCII type

printer?

The target printers speak PCL5/6.

 Is PSF/400 required for this to work?




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