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  • Subject: AS/400 and InfoPrint32 printer
  • From: afvaiv <afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 14:23:29 +0200

Hi, we are having quite a number of problems with an IBM InfoPrint32
printer. The printer is LAN attached (Ethernet) and will be used for
different outputs, either from AS/400 and/or Windows.

The InfoPrint32 printer does NOT have the IPDS feature installed.
The AS/400 is model 820, running V4R5, and updated PTFs.
The printer came with two manuals: "Quick Config" and "User manual". We
followed printer Setup instructions at the printer Op's panel. Then,
went on to configuring it for AS/400.

1- First "surprise": configurations shown in the manual included
examples for AppleTalk, OS/2, MVS, etc, but for AS/400 the only options
shown are: as a twinax or ASCII printer, or LAN (Ethernet/T.R.) IPDS
printer using PSF/400..., and only for the old V3R6, V3R7 versions !!!
We tried several different configurations, but are getting problems with
all of them (either fonts too small, or lose rightmost positions when
printing 198 positions in landscape format after autorotate, etc) Has
anyone on this list configured it as a LAN printer, without IPDS,
PSF/400 ? Could you send me the AS/400 printer's device description
you're using?

2- Second "surprise": Selecting paper trays, for input and for output is
a nightmare! We are starting to use a program named "QuickPress" (one of
the many existing which allows for boxes, images, etc, similar to
PSF/400) which seems to "know" about this problem, since it includes
something like a "table of equivalences of physical to logical" trays
translation !!!, whereby when you tell the program to feed from tray 2
... it means to use tray 5 (an example) and so on... Sounds crazy, but
they (that program) does include it! The problem is when we print from
any AS/400 application, and we want to select either input and/or output
tray... we have to remember to "translate" those numbers in our OVRPRTF
... Anybody knows a way to avoid this nuissance?

3- The printer has also been configured for several PC's. The drivers
installed have a surprising behaviour : with Windows/95/98, you can
select an option to print "edge to edge", i.e. without any margins
whatsoever (top/down/right/left). The manual says it is not recommended
(toner may get the printer durty...) but can be selected. But with
WindowsNT4.0, this option is not available. Configured the printer (Op's
panel) for this option as "selected", but the manual says that
applications printout will override this option... so we can print
"edge-to-edge" under Windows/95/98, but not from Windows/NT... nor from
AS/400 , of course! Any ideas? I've read somewhere in Internet that for
"full" (???) edge-to-edge support, printer needs to be AFP and IPDS...
Is that true?

I'd appreciate any help and config samples!  TIA
-------------------------
Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
afvaiv@wanadoo.es


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