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Hi, I do believe my margins are minimal and I have tried various offsets. My overlay is defined within the actual DDS as opposed to being attached to the PRTF. The printer appears to randomly decide whether it likes the overlay or not. For example I can print an overlay that will print right off the right hand side of the page and down off the bottom. If I then change the same overlay to narrow the box on the right hand side (so as I can get a normal four sided rectangle; square in the centre of the page) it attempts to print it and eventually after about 35/45 seconds it puts the spooled file back to hold. If I then narrow the same rectangle to 4 inches in width having not changed its position it prints it no problem!! So I would run with the suggestion of unprintable areas/margins only it prints all the way to the edge and off the side of the right hand side of the page and all the way to the bottom and off the bottom of the page. I have looked at the IPDS settings on the printer and the 'OFF SET MARGINS' are 0,0. (this seems fine to me) 'REPORT MARGINS TO SYSTEM' is set to YES (but I am not sure what effect this parameter has) 'ADD MARGINS' is set to NO. With regards to 'Unprintable Areas' I have had no joy here too. I looked in the HP4050 manual and it does not seem to mention any limitations here. When I look for printing info on AS400 to HP4000; a lot of the hits I get seem to relate to Host Print Transform. Our preference is to stick with the *IPDS printer type though. Any more suggestion will be gratefully received and thank you for ones received already Regards Vivienne -----Original Message----- From: jfortwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfortwen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 11 February 2004 18:18 To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries Subject: Re: Problems while printing overlays to a *IPDS printer Hi Have you seen "May the (AFP overlay) forms be with you MAY 2001 Midrange Computing? it's a good article. As per your problem: Have you 1) told word to use minimal margins 2) choose Zero offset for your Printer file (on the 400) front overlay offset across & down I'm not sure if these will help you but it sounds like the overlay is Ok and the view is Ok until offsets are applied I've only just gotten started using overlays but I had problems with mine until I set offsets to zero. Hope this helps!! Vivienne Seymour <vivienne.seymour @labsys.ie> To Sent by: "'rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx'" rpg400-l-bounces@ <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx> midrange.com cc Subject 02/11/2004 10:22 Problems while printing ovelays to AM a *IPDS printer Please respond to RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@midrang e.com> Hi there, I am attempting to print a report which includes an overlay. I am creating the overlay in word with a page size of A4. Using AFP 300 driver with settings of A4 size as the paper size, overlay as the output type. This will generate a .prn file I am then using the AFP workbench (Client Access) to view this overlay and create it into a .oly file which I transfer to the I: drive and subsequently CRTOVL on the AS400. My problem is that even though the overlay appears to be within margins and view ok in the AFP workbench; when it prints on the AS400 the overlay is not printed correctly. Pending on the X & Y coordinates I use in my print program it either truncates the top of the box off or prints the top of the box down the end of the page thereby truncating the bottom half of the box. The box does not appear to be too big for the page when viewed in both word and the AFP workbench. When printed regardless of the X,Y coordinates there always appears to be enough space on the page for truncation NOT to occur. I don't understand why it is happening. I am not sure whether I am using the right driver of not? The printer is set up with a DEVICE CLASS of *LCL DEVICE TYPE of *IPDS DEVICE MODEL of 0 I preferably do not want to go down the HOST PRINT TRANSFORM route if possible. Are there any settings that I need to address that I have overlooked? Regards Vivienne _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l. _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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