RE: Postscript OUTQ

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Thanks Charles and Scott.  It's made by Imagistics (Pitney Bowes and Oce
> merger).  The configuration page that it prints out states that it's a
> model ipc1-im8130.

I went to the following Web site:
http://www.imagistics.com/products/downloads.asp

And looked up the technical specs for the im8130, and it states that it 
supports PCL5e/PCL6 as it's standard print language, and also supports 
PostScript 3 via emulation.

> I followed the link to 
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1455d75b61c75fdcc86256a1e00532f93 
> and was wondering if the model OC3133 setup would work since it's a 
> multifunction device and is listed as PostScript 3.

Ignore the "PostScript" part of it.  You won't be using PostScript if you 
follow the instructions on that page.  Instead, look for something that 
discusses PCL5e or PCL6.  When I look at that page, I see that all of the 
Oc printers support PCL5e/PCL6, and they all should be set up using the 
*HP5SI MFRTYPMDL.

> Also, I started looking through the config for the copier itself.  Under
> the "raw job settings" it has settings for PCL font options.  If PCL is the
> way to go then how do I specify that in the OUTQ config?  Since it lists
> "host-based" as N then do I set Host Print Transform to *NO?

No, "host-based" and "Host Print Transform" are two very different things. 
"host-based" means that the printer doesn't understand any printer 
languages -- with a host-based printer, you MUST use the Windows printer 
driver, or you're out of luck.  This is usually the case with very cheap 
single-user PC printers.  Yours is "host based = NO" which is a good 
thing.

Host Print Transform is software in i5/OS that lets the system transform 
it's native printer languages (SCS and AFPDS) to a PC printer language 
like PCL or PPDS.  That's how you tell it to convert to PCL (which is what 
you want.)

This is my best guess for how to set up the printer...

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(my-device) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1)
         LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(9100) ONLINE(*YES) +
         PRTERRMSG(*INFO) +
         TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*HP5SI)
         RMTLOCNAME('x.x.x.x') +
         USRDFNOPT(*IBMSHRCNN) +
         SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) +
         TEXT('Dave''s Shiny New Photocopier')