RE: Confused about printing

Loyd,

Do you mean that they print fatter as *AFPDS than *IPDS on the same printer?

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) 
> [mailto:LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, September 10, 2004 9:35 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Confused about printing
> 
> 
> Changing the printer file from *IPDS to *AFPDS works. 
> However, there must
> have been some catch between IPDS and AFPDS, because the 
> barcodes print
> "fatter" through AFPDS than IPDS does. 
> 
> We also noticed this when we tried to print the spooled file 
> as IPDS on
> another IBM printer with IBM IPDS installed. The barcodes are 
> thinner on the
> 4312/17/24 model printers than on the two 1140 printers we 
> have, or any
> other printer (HP) with IPDS capability. 
> 
> The short story is, yes it works, but I need to rearrange everything
> horizontally in the printer file to accommodate for the 
> fatter barcodes, as
> well as reduce the barcode ratio from 3 to 2. Somewhere I 
> remember that 3 is
> the correct ratio, but the barcodes are too wide!
> 
> Thanks,
> Loyd
> 
> Loyd Goodbar
> Senior programmer/analyst
> BorgWarner
> E/TS Water Valley
> 662-473-5713
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) 
> [mailto:LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 14:58
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: Confused about printing
> 
> OK, thanks! I will try this in test tomorrow. (Too many fires 
> right now!)
> 
> Loyd Goodbar
> Senior programmer/analyst
> BorgWarner
> E/TS Water Valley
> 662-473-5713
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 13:25
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: Confused about printing
> 
> Loyd,
> 
> Host Print Transform (HPT) can't handle *IPDS spool files.  
> You need to
> change the spool file to *AFPDS.
> 
> Leave the printer *DEVD alone.  You don't need AFP(*YES) when 
> the printer is
> using HPT.
> 
> In other words, HPT can't do *IPDS to ASCII.  But it can do 
> *AFPDS to ASCII.
> 
> HTH,
> Charles
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) 
> > [mailto:LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:04 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Confused about printing
> > 
> > 
> > I have an IBM 4312 printer I'd like to replace with a Dell 
> > M5200. Using the
> > recent "Help! Best Host Print Transform for Dell W5300 
> > Printer" thread as a
> > guide, I have set up the Dell as a *LAN/3812 with host print 
> > transform and
> > using the *IBMPJLDRV system driver. Currently no workstation 
> > customizing
> > object, user defined object, or data transformation program.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I was under the impression I was able to print IPDS spooled 
> files with
> > barcodes to this printer, but the system holds the file. 
> > Also, printing
> > reports with MULTIUP(2) doesn't; it prints spooled files as 
> > if the multiup()
> > were not specified.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Somewhere else I read I could use the barcodes if I 
> > recompiled the DDS using
> > spooled file type AFPDS. However, I can't seem to get the 
> > Dell printer to be
> > an AFP capable printer with a device class of *LAN and type 3812.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a "simple" matrix of which spooled file types work 
> with which
> > printer types?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have two goals with the Dell printer: 1) Support printing 
> > of bar codes -
> > how? What's the proper non-IPDS setup for the printer? 2) 
> > Support printing
> > of regular spooled files with MULTIUP(2). Is this an 
> > IPDS-only function or
> > is this supported with HPT?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Loyd Goodbar
> > 
> > Senior programmer/analyst
> > 
> > BorgWarner
> > 
> > E/TS Water Valley
> > 
> > 662-473-5713
> > 
> >  
> > 
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