Re: How to print an IFS PDF file on a LAN printer

Hi Roberto,
Thank you for this idea which I have nerver heard about before.

I have tried but the last command to create the device that uses *PSFCFG
lack the main parameters DEVCLS, TYPE, MODEL; at least this is the reason I
can't get this command executed properly.

I guess they could be *VRT/3812/1. I'll keep on trying.

Thank you
Lucia

Il giorno mar 10 ago 2021 alle ore 15:06 Roberto De Pedrini <
roberto.faq400@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

@Maria ... take a look here
https://blog.faq400.com/en/system-administration-en/printing-afpds-2/
(there's an Italian version too)


I haven't tried it because I've got an old Ghostscript tool to convert a
PDF to PCL and then I'll send it to HPPJL Lan Printers

HTH
Roberto



Il giorno mar 10 ago 2021 alle ore 14:54 Maria Lucia Stoppa <
mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

Hi Vernon, hi Patrick,
Thank you for your replies.

@Vernon: I thought just the printer file had to be *USERASCII, not the
device description. Which *DEVD parameter are you thinking of?
@Patrick: yes, FTP was binary.

Also, after further digging into the issue I think those printers do not
accept direct PDF which, on the contrary, I took for granted, though at
least the Ricoh one could.
Given the holidays time we are in I am waiting for the maintainance

service

to call on us to help configure the Ricoh, hopefully, because I don't

know

what's needed to have this feature and how to install it.

Anyway, knowing I am on the right path is already an answer.

Thank you very much
Lucia


Il giorno mar 10 ago 2021 alle ore 14:30 Patrik Schindler <

poc@xxxxxxxxxx>

ha scritto:

Hello Maria,

Am 10.08.2021 um 11:03 schrieb Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx

:

Does any of you have any suggestion to make me have PDF print from

IFS

without having to buy other software?

Silly question: Does the printer in question support rendering PDFs
directly to paper?

I get you have been copying the PDFs to the printer by FTP? Did you use
binary mode?

Otherwise, I'm not sure what the printing system of IBM i does with

PDFs

when they go through the spooling subsystem.

:wq! PoC

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