Re: WSCST(*PDF) and BACKOVL

Vern, that was the long version of my answer :-)

Could possibly tweak the workstation customization if using Host Print Transform.

However if you're paid by the hour how many of your customers dollars have already been spent trying to hammer a one-off solution ?

We see this all the time where years later customers are coming to us because a consultant cobbled something together. Then they left and the process is undocumented and unsupported.

Do yourself a favor and solve the problem with supported software.

Just sayin.......

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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message: 4
date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 00:11:49 -0500
from: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: WSCST(*PDF) and BACKOVL

I'm trying to frame my response and hope I'm close to sensible.
USERASCII is the "raw" data stream for a certain printer. Let's say we are talking PCL. In order to print duplex, then, somehow, the PCL command string for duplex printing would have to have been inserted into that "raw" data. I'm using ghostscript to generate PCL and suspect that there is an option I can use to get duplex to work. I am not sure, but maybe.

Now Host Print Transform, for one, generates that PCL (or other) data stream - and if there is a duplex option turned on in the spooled file, it will show up at the printer. Right?

But there is nothing innate to USERASCII to make it duplex - the command sequence for duplex has to somehow be inserted.

HTH
Vern

On 11/1/2016 6:48 PM, Jack Tucky wrote:

I can print *DUPLEX from an SCS or AFPDS printer file, but a *USRASCII
spool file won't print duplex.

Is *Duplex supported for USRASCII or is there something else I'm doing
wrong?

Thanks again

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Jack Tucky <jacktucky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks again. I'll give my customer all of his options as I go forward.

Art

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

If you're spooling them with Host Print Transform or Ghostscript
you'll need to figure out how to inject a duplex sequence into the print stream.
Not an easy feat in my experience.

In our case if you print a PDF with our APIs we handle the duplex
switches by interfacing directly to a Windows print driver and then
either printing directly to the printer or re-spooling the RAW
USERASCII data back into an outq for inline printing with other print jobs.

If you're interested in trying out our software at some point:
https://www.helpsystems.com/solutions/document-forms-managem
ent/document-creation-and-assembly

Tell the sales team you're needing to print PDF documents from the
IBM i and they will set you up with a demo of iForms which has PDF
printing capabilities.

Regards,

Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com
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Yes, the problem is I create the PDF as two pages long, when I
convert it back to *USERASCII and print it I get two pages.

QSYSPRT is set as DUPLEX(*YES)

On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Richard Schoen <
Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So was there an actual probllem then ?

Regards,


Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com


Thanks for the reply. My final printer file is *USERASCII, if I
setup
DUPLEX(*YES) it prints two pages.

Art
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