All,
Background
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IBM i 7.3, current on PTFs. We use FormSprint to generate color invoices.
We recently replaced an HP CP4025dn printer with an HP M652dn because the
old printer has had it.
For the new printer, I literally varied off the device, made 2 changes to
the device description, and varied it on. The 2 changes were to the TEXT
and MFRTYPMDL parms. A RTVCFGSRC of the new device description looks like
this:
CRTDEVPRT DEVD(HP1) +
DEVCLS(*LAN) +
TYPE(3812) +
MODEL(1) +
LANATTACH(*IP) +
PORT(9100) +
ATTACH(*DIRECT) +
ONLINE(*YES) +
FONT(011 *NONE) +
FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT) +
SEPDRAWER(*FILE) +
PRTERRMSG(*INFO) +
MSGQ(*LIBL/PRTMSGS) +
ACTTMR(170) +
INACTTMR(*SEC15) +
LINESPEED(19200) +
WORDLEN(8) +
PARITY(*NONE) +
STOPBITS(1) +
TRANSFORM(*YES) +
MFRTYPMDL(*HP5SI) +
PPRSRC1(*LETTER) +
PPRSRC2(*LETTER) +
ENVELOPE(*NUMBER10) +
ASCII899(*NO) +
IMGCFG(*NONE) +
CHRID(*SYSVAL) +
RMTLOCNAME('192.168.0.181') +
USRDFNOPT(*IBMSHRCNN) +
SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) +
TEXT('HP M652dn (HP1)') +
PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *BLANK +
(*UNKNOWN))
The MFRTYPMDL of the old CP4025 printer was *LEXMARKC750 because that's
what this page:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019534
recommended. The new printer, M652dn, is not listed. The closest I could
find was M603dn which suggested a MFRTYPMDL of *RICOHAP3200 or *HP5SI
or *HP4000.
I picked *HP5SI just because.
The Issue
========
We're having no issues with most everything printed except invoices.
We use the printer to print invoices from the IBM i. A daily batch will be
150-300 pages. Both days we have done this, it printed 120-150 pages of
the spool file and skipped the rest. Went on to the next spool file as if
the remaining pages did not exist. The spool file automatically goes to
SAV status, so I changed the PAGERANGE parm, released it, and got the rest
of the pages. There is nothing in the printer message queue. There is
nothing in the printer event log.
This is the only IBM i spool file of this size as most reports are made
into PDFs and emailed, so I don't have another to try. I have done 1
Windows printout of 160 pages (the operator's guide for this printer) and
it completed fine.
Anyone got an M652dn attached to IBM i? Would changing the MFRTYPMDL do
anything? I don't want to just start making guesses.
Thanks.
midrange.com
