Re: TCP/IP printing from AS400

By "blindly shooting" I assume you mean you are using remote outq support. This doesn't have the full feedback capability that setting up a regular printer affords you. Depending on the printer and how much you want to interact, a TCP printer can work pretty much like the twinax printer. Just walk through the wizard in System i Navigator and set up a local lan printer. You can still get messages for forms changes - as a matter of fact they can be quite annoying when you get used to not having them!


One reason we went to TCP based laser printers (forced us off twinax character and dot matrix printers) was so that we could get rid of special forms. Everything prints on white 8x11 now. Labels were a problem for a while until we just decided to print those on PC based printers (Word is much better at managing the different label formats than I could ever be) or on the Zebra printers we have in the factory and distribution. You might want to consider this to be a chance to change your paradigm on printing "forms".



----- Original Message -----
From: James LeLeux <james.leleux@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:38 AM
Subject: TCP/IP printing from AS400

Hi,

For years we've been blindly shooting reports to IP based printers from our
400.
It works so well that we haven't touched them in years.

However, since we are moving from V5R1 to V7R1 we have to replace our main
twinax printer with IP based.

My question is if there is a guide or reference to have forms management
and other user control/options via TCP/IP?
We've enjoyed this with twinax, as well as in the windows world, but have
not figured it out for AS400 IP printing.

Appreciate any tips or links in getting us to the next level.

Thanks in advance for your time...james