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  3. October 2006

Re: Postscript OUTQ

Hi Dave,


I've got a copier that I'm trying to get set up to print from our iSeries.
It prints fine from PC applications but I'm having difficulty getting the
OUTQ set up correctly.  The print emulation says that it's PostScript Level
3.
To me that sounds like the printer emulates PostScript, but it isn't the native language. I wonder what the native language is?
The reason I ask that: The System i (iSeries, AS/400, whatever) has never done a very good job of supporting PostScript. It supports it only as an image transform, and it's rather inefficient to convert all of your documents to images!
However, if the copier supports PCL, you could set up host print transform to convert to PCL and you'd be good to go.
We have a Ricoh photocopier here that supports PCL natively and PostScript Level 3 emulation. Although many of our PC applications send PostScript to it, and all of our Unix applications send PostScript, the iSeries ones use PCL and it works nicely.
I've also written RPG programs that output PostScript to a *USERASCII spooled file, so the system doesn't have to understand the PostScript itself, the program generates it... that also works nicely and gives you a level of flexibility that you wouldn't have with native iSeries (AFP converted to PCL) stuff. 

  I've done my fair share of work with printers but haven't really had

the need to do anything with PostScript.  Can anybody suggest an
appropriate device or other configuration options?  Thanks.
If you can't figure it out from your copier's documentation, you might try looking at IBM's site. It shows lots of printer manufacturers and the appropriate configurations: 
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1b44a2cf4ba778d83862568250053649f

Here's a shorter link:
http://tinyurl.com/jx4bt

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