RE: IBM Network 12/17 printers

[pault@xxxxxxxxx (Paul Tykodi)]

John Muirhead wrote to midrange-l:

Hi!

Does anyone have any experience installing and configuring IBM's Network 12 and 
17 printers via twinax connections to the AS/400. We're running into a problem 
with these printers when printing to them from PCs via Client Access' virtual 
print function (Win3.1 & 95 both) that causes the 2 paper trays to be addressed 
in reverse.

Here's an example:  when printing a Word document to this printer, if you'd 
like it to draw from Tray-2, you actually must tell the PC driver to draw from 
Tray 1!

>From the PC driver side, we've used the drivers that come with the printers 
(even downloaded the newest version) as well as used the "generic" HP Laserjet 
4 drivers, which is what used to work with all our old Lexmark 4039 and Optra R 
printers. Nothing seems to work.

Anyone else experience this phenomenon?  And what is your overall opinion of 
IBM's network printers?

Thanks.

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John Muirhead                           jmuirh@treetop.com

Dear John,

You might want to check the configuration of the printers to see whether a 
feature called "Tray Renumbering" or "Tray Linking" is enabled. The feature is 
used to swap the source drawers that are activated by a software drawer 
selection command. It is usually used to make a large capacity source drawer 
(example 2,000 sheet feeder) the default drawer without requiring changes in 
the setup of the software drivers on the host.

HTH

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                 E-mail: pault@praim.com
Praim Inc.                                           Tel: 603-431-0606
140 Congress St., #2                                Fax: 603-436-6432
Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019


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