Re: Setting up IPDS printer

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Zebra GK420t arrived today.  I am pulling my hair out again concerning
the setup because I am too ignorant to try anything logical and am just
throwing mud at the wall at this point.  Too many terms being thrown around
on the web search results like "you don't need a WCST object" and "make sure
to configure it with a RMTPRTQ of 'PORTLF1' ", and I don't have a solid
understanding how a remote outq is different from a regular outq other than
I see it seems to be using some PASE type features when it is created (i.e.
'/prt01') via iNav.

I have read the following pages and am trying to piece together all of the
things that need to happen and in what order to make this Zebra printer spit
out some content:
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/400_Print_101
http://wiki.midrange.com/index.php/Setting_up_a_printer
http://www.code400.com/forum/showthread.php/4905-How-to-configure-Zebra-Thermal-Printer-in-iSeries
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1b49aa3cf3ce97d0d862565c2007d4393
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas15853b0046d2388ca86256ab8006ed891

The ports and services on the Zebra GK420t are as follows (I have been using
515):
21 - ftp
23 - telnet
25 - smtp
139 - netbios-ssn
389 - ldap
427 - svrloc
445 - microsoft-ds
515 - printer
2001 - dc
3000 - ppp

I know this is asking a lot, but if somebody could take a few minutes and
give me the order of commands to call and the parms to specify, well, I
would owe you more than a pint.

A printing idiot am I,
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
http://mowyourlawn.com/blog/


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I think I will be ordering one of these today!  Thanks Lukas for your
> direction and recommendation.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> www.SoftwareSavesLives.com
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM, Lukas Beeler <
> lukas.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 20:26, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> > > Mmmm. Not bad cost either.  Looks like around $400.00.
> > >
> > > The honkers I have dealt with were 8-10k.
> >
> > That's because Zebra has everything - from industrial label printers
> > that have to print 10'000 labels a day, to desktop printers like the
> > GK420t that are only meant for 100 labels a day.
> >
> > Luckily, with ZPLII and EPLII, using them is quite easy, as the
> > language is the same.
> >
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