Re: Set spool file to be recognised as black and white as opposed to colour

[Don Brown <DBrown@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the information Scott.

I am thinking you needed to do this to be able to insert the user id as 
this is dynamic information. (I have a customer in Adelaide that would 
really benefit from having the user id in the job but that is a job for 
another day!)

As the information is static - will be for every job my next option is to 
apply a WSCST with a printer initialisation string to set the mode.

Based on the HP PJL manual I am thinking;

:INITPRT
           /* Ec% - 1 2 3 4 5 X @ P J L CrLf */
      DATA = '1B252D31323334355840504A4C0D0A'X
           /* @ P J L   S E T   R E N D E R M O D E = G R A Y S C A L E 
CrLf */
             
'40504a4c205345542052454e4445524d4f44453d475241595343414c450D0A'X  
           /* EcE     (Initialize Printer) */
             '1B45'X.


I am though very interested in investigating the use of the USRDTATFM  
exit point.  If anyone has any working example of this and would like to 
share I would really appreciate it rather than starting by searching for 
the relevant manual(s)

Thanks


Don Brown




From:   Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   16/09/2015 11:27 AM
Subject:        Re: Set spool file to be recognised as black and white as 
opposed to      colour
Sent by:        "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



There is an escape code that needs to be sent to the printer to tell it 
to use black & white mode -- and unfortunately, the Host Print Transform 
does not send this code.

I fixed this at a previous job, about 10 years ago, by inserting some 
code using the USRDTATFM exit point...   but it was 10 years ago, and I 
don't remember the specifics anymore, sorry.

In our case, we were using the printer's statistics to charge 
appropriate departments within our organization (each employee used 
their own signon to print to this printer, and we charged their 
departments a different rate per page for B&W vs Color, this is why we 
had to fix it.)  So we had code in there to insert their userid for the 
printer to recognize it when printing from IBM i, as well as set the B&W 
mode (IBM i never printed color)...  it was fairly complex.

Unfortunately, I don't have any of the specifics.  But, maybe this will 
help you look in the right place?  (PJL manual, perhaps?)


On 9/15/2015 6:56 PM, Don Brown wrote:
> We have a new colour printer (Fuji-Xerox MFP model FX DocuCentre-IV
> C2265 PCL 6)
>
> We are using a remote output queue to connect to a Windows 2012 R2
> server with LPR printing enabled.
>
> The issue is the printer is detecting every print job from the System i
> as a colour job and this results in being charge at a colour rate per
> print.
>
> I have looked at the *HPCOLORLJ work station customising object for any
> commands that relate to colour but nothing seems to be obvious.  I have
> tried HP5 and other options for manufacture type and model but always
> the print job is received/identified as colour.
>
> Could anyone suggest how I could configure the output queue or 
workstation
> customising object to enable the print jobs to be recognised as black
> and white jobs.
>
> Thanks everyone!
>
> Don Brown