Re: how to "wrap" printer output with PJL and PCL printer commands?

"Scott Klement" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1340.1169661943.2688.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

I'm struggling with the phrase "wrap any print".  What does that mean, 
exactly?  Normally, in the context of printers, when you say "wrap any 
print" I'd assume that you want words to wrap from the end of one line to 
the start of the next .  But I don't think that's the case here, is it?

So what do you mean by "wrap any print"?

Regarding sending stuff to a mailbox...  how do you know which mailbox to 
send it to?  I assume there are different printer codes to send depending 
on the destination mailbox (maybe in a PJL command?)  How do you designate 
the mailbox?  Are you planning to have a lookup table that 
cross-references the userid (the one that generated the spooled file on 
the iSeries) with the mailbox id for the printer?   Or will you have one 
mailbox for the iSeries, no matter which user created the spooled file? 
Or...  how does that work?

Scott,

Good questions and I should have been more clear.

By "wrapping the print" I mean that whatever printed output is being sent to 
the printer from the OUTQ, I need to prefix some lines with PJL and PCL 
commands to the beginning and I need to append some other lines of PJL and 
PCL commands to the end. These are escape sequences that instruct a printer 
to do certain things. After you send your print with these settings you have 
to make sure to reset things to the way they were before or everything else 
sent to the printer will inherit those attributes whether you wanted them to 
or not.

At this point, we don't need to be concerned with sending print to various 
mailboxes depending on the requesting user. For now, there will be only one 
mailbox indicating it is print from the iSeries. This will only be 
used/shared by Tech Services users.