First, the Brother MFC 7820N is not an IPDS printer, so don't try to
send an IPDS stream to it.
With 9100 active, it should behave like an HP network printer, so
configure a print device that uses HP5 or a variant thereof as the type.
If you're going to try to print barcode from an RPG program, configure
the printer file as an AFP printer. Then use HPT in your printer device.
The RPG program to the file will create AFP (MODCA) print stream in the
spool file. You can include a barcode using the BARCODE keyword in the
print file. HPT will transform that to PCL print stream and manage
sending that to your printer.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Aaron Bartell
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 8:24 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Setting up IPDS printer
First off let me say I am out of my knowledgable area on the IBMi with
printers (haven't done operations in over 10yrs :-). With that said...
I am trying to setup a networked IPDS printer so I can print UPS labels
on a
V5R3 machine. The printer is a Brother MFC 7820N. I was successful at
setting up a networked non-IPDS printer via iNav and it prints ASCII
spool files just fine (i.e. the test print page). The printer isn't a
label printer because I thought it wouldn't really matter given it is
just a print stream needing to make it's way onto some form of paper
medium, correct?
Running nmap gave me the following open ports and services on the
printer:
21 - ftp
23 - telnet
80 - http
515 - printer
631 - ipp
9100 - jetdirect
Here is a video of my attempt:
http://screencast.com/t/ZTk4NWQ1O
Can I use this printer to print non-ASCII spool files?
Can you see anything I am doing wrong?
Aaron Bartell
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