Re: IBM 6400 Twinax Remote to Network -- MIDRANGE-L

Al,

I'm not sure how to navigate from your 400 over the VPN to your 6400
printer, but here is the device description for our IBM 6400 printer with
a network attachment. Hopefully this will help you get yours configured.
This works directly from the System i. I just used the CRTDEVPRT command
to create the device description.

Device description . . . . . . . . : P1
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT

Device class . . . . . . . . . . . : *LAN
Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : 3812
Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : 1
LAN attachment . . . . . . . . . . : *IP
Port number . . . . . . . . . . . : 9100
Physical attachment . . . . . . . : *DIREC
Online at IPL . . . . . . . . . . : *YES
Font:
Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . : 11
Point size . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Form feed . . . . . . . . . . . . : *CONT
Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . : *FILE
Device description . . . . . . . . : P1
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT
Separator program . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Printer error message . . . . . . : *INFO
Message queue . . . . . . . . . . : *CTLD
Current message queue . . . . . . : QSYSOPR
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . : QSYS
Activation timer . . . . . . . . . : 170
Inactivity timer . . . . . . . . . : *SEC15
Line speed . . . . . . . . . . . . : 19200
Word length . . . . . . . . . . . : 8
Type of parity . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Stop bits . . . . . . . . . . . . : 1
Host print transform . . . . . . . : *YES
Device description . . . . . . . . : P1
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT

Manufacturer type and model . . . : *IBM6400
Paper source 1 . . . . . . . . . . : *CONT132
Paper source 2 . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Envelope source . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
ASCII code page 899 support . . . : *NO
Image configuration . . . . . . . : *NONE
Character identifier . . . . . . . : *SYSVAL
Remote location:
Name or address . . . . . . . . : 192.168.2.90
Device description . . . . . . . . : P1
Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC
Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT

Workstation customizing object . . : *NONE
User-defined object . . . . . . . : *NONE
Object type . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Data transform program . . . . . . : *NONE
System driver program . . . . . . : *IBMSNMPDRV

Steven Morrison
Fidelity Express
903-885-1283 ext. 292

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Re: IBM 6400 Twinax Remote to Network

Thanks

We had SERVIT come in & replace the twinax card with an ethernet card.
The printer is now connected to a Microsoft network, which has various PCs

also connected to it, using that network to ultimately reach the 400.

Initially the 400 could not vary on the printer, and gave it
QPDAV-whatever
identity ... as soon as I changed QPDAV whatever to a sane name, with
WRKCFGSTS, the printer identity jumped to another QPDAV # string ... it
was
not acceptable to me for the printer to have a different identity each
day.
Then my laptop got some windoze software installed that recognizes that
printer, with a sane name.

I had to power down up the 400 for it to recognize "new" printer.
We have AS/400 model 170 with OS/400 V5 R1

Now the 400 is able to print there, provided my laptop is talking to the
Internet, has the VPN up, and I click on a work station session that is
that
sane printer id. Other people are also able to release stuff to print
there, so long as my laptop session has not "timed out" with the Microsoft

network. When that happens, I have to reboot my laptop & restart VPN etc.

The plan was to install the same Windoze stuff on bunch other people PC's
so
whan me not in this office, anyone in the office there can use the
printer.

However the print quality is a nightmare.
It is chopping stuff off at approx 8 inches wide.
Some reports rotated sideways with even smaller print.
Vertical alignment is for the birds.

On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:07:13 -0600, John McKee wrote

Is printer directly network attached, or is it attached through a pc?

If attached by a pc: Does PC have optional LPR/LPD from Microsoft
(or somewhree else) installed? If it does, can you create a device
description that matches the printer? If not, can you install
LPR/LPD? It runs as a service, so no user needs to be logged on to
the computer the printer is attached to.

if directly attached to the network: Can a device description be
created for it?

John McKee

Quoting macwheel99@xxxxxxxxxx:

My company is dropping T1 line in vavor of VPN to save $.

This means remote printer now connects via Ethernet, using rules on

PC(s)

local to same office, not 400 host settings. I want it to print same

what we used to get ... page form dimensions, CPI, LPI, not chop off

parts

of report, sideways or top or bottom, lose alignment, etc.

Through the printer properties setup on PC we selected tractor feed

which

has choices
A3; A4; B5(J15); fanfold 8 1/2 x 12 in; letter; legal; US Std

fanfold ... do

any of these even come close to "Print whatever the host 400 sends

you."? I

am not finding anything remotely like that in the various tabs. In

advanced

settings, we currently have it with data type: "RAW" WinPrint.

Currently there are multiple problems, rendering the quality of

anything
it

prints, at best, seriously impaired ... here's a list of what I have

noticed

so far:

unreliable network connections
unreliable portrait vs. landscape
unreliable form length, ignoring placement between perforations
unreliable control over what belongs on the same page
often chopping off right side of report
inconsistency of print size
over printing where not wanted
s_l_o_w print speed

-
Al Macintyre
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