Re: ATB printing

 Jeffery, 

        I would like for an interface box that would speak IP or APPC on 
 a host link and drive the ATB on a serial port.  You might talk with 
 some of the manufactures of the Lan Prinetr interfaces as most of them
 serial as well as parrell interfaces and can provide a custom translate
 that would support the ATB. Then the interface is just start a remote 
 printer on the AS/400.

        If you need a custom interface I might be able to help. 
        
        Jeff Silberberg
        CompuDesigns, Inc.
        (770) 399-9464

On Wed, 12 Nov 1997, Jeffrey M. Carey wrote:

> Anyone have any ideas on this one:  We are trying to convert a ticket
> printing program to print on an ATB printer (standard airline ticket
> printer, uses it's own printer language, attaches only RS232).  
> 
> Currently, the ticket printing program (COBOL) on the 400 prints
> directly to the printer device - does not create a spool file (we think
> we'll probably have to change that).  
> 
> Any ideas on how to get the print stream to the ATB printer?  Right now
> we're think of writing a PC program to modify the print stream (once
> we've somehow gotten it down to a PC) and send it to the ATB printer, or 
> maybe use some kind of program on the 400 to write to the printer and
> hook it up over a V.24 comm line, or set the printer up (via an attached
> PC) for TCP/IP as a remote printer (maybe using some kind of workstation
> customizing object to alter the print stream?).
> 
> Any ideas or guesses would be welcome!
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