4214 - LaserJet 4 Plus

Dear Dan,

In the setup menu for the IDEA 5250 terminal, there will be a screen for
printer setup. You will need to locate a printer driver selection that says
something like HP PCL 5 laser printer and choose that instead of the default
printer which is typically an IBM Proprinter (matrix printer) in a twinax
terminal.

This should cure both the unexpected characters at the top of the page
problem and the incorrect page formatting problem as well.

Best Regards,

/Paul

Paul Tykodi
Director of Technical Services
LCI-Intermate US, Inc.

p: 603.431.0606 x115
f:  603.436.6432
paul@intermate-us.com
www.intermate.com

Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 10:09:00 -0400
From: D.BALE@handleman.com
Subject: 4214 - LaserJet 4 Plus

We've got a LaserJet 4 Plus configured as a 4214 (model 2) printer.  At the
top of the first page of anything we print, we get a series of ASCII-looking
symbols.  The printer attaches to the parallel port off the back of a dumb
IDEA 5250 terminal; the terminal is attached via twinax.

Also, I've defined an 88 line per page & 8 lines per inch output for one
report, and it prints at 6 lines per inch, causing the last 22 lines of the
88-line page to overflow onto the next page; it prints in the desired
portrait
mode and we get all 132 characters across just fine.

I've been out of hardware configuration too long to remember where to start
looking for this.  Hints would be greatly appreciated.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952



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