Re: TCP/IP Printing to PC Printers - IPDS Capable?

[pault@xxxxxxxxx (Paul Tykodi)]

Joe Teff wrote to midrange-l:

> If you mean you want to print as/400 data to a pc printer, you can do 
it 
> very easily, assuming:
> 
> You have TCP/IP configured on your AS/400,
> Your Printer has a IP address.
> 
> Everything is controlled from the CRTOUTQ command.
> 
> Use   RMTSYS(*INTNETADR)
>       Connection type=*IP
>       Internet address=Printer address
>       Destination type=*OTHER
>       Host print transform=*YES
>       Manufacturer type and model=whatever (ours is *HP4)
>       We also set autostart writers to 1, so the system starts the writer 
>          automatically
> 
> I didn't do anything special to configure this. I saw it done in a 
> magazine, tried it, and it worked. We don't use pc support to run our 
hp 
> printers as /400 printers at all anymore.


Does this handle *IPDS type print as well? Will it handle form overlays?
Joe Teff
QDS
Bloomington, MN

Dear Joe,

IPDS support is handled by the QWPZTAFP API. Capabilities of the API are listed 
in the System API Reference publications for the different OS/400 releases. The 
description listed below comes from the V3R7 publication.

The Transform AFP to ASCII (QWPZTAFP) API transforms an Advanced Function 
Printing data stream (AFPDS) into an ASCII data stream. The ASCII data stream 
can be formatted for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, or PostScript-capable printers. 

The QWPZTAFP API processes the following AFPDS objects: 

- Document 
- Presentation page 
- Presentation text data 
- IM1 image data (1) 
- Overlay resources 
- Page segment resources 

The QWPZTAFP API does not process the following AFPDS objects: 

- IO image (IOCA) commands 
- Graphic data (GOCA) commands 
- Bar code (BCOCA) commands 
- Presentation Text 2 (PT2) text commands 
- Double-byte character set (DBCS) fonts 

AFP commands that are not supported by the QWPZTAFP API are ignored, and no 
warning or error message is sent to the user. 

Fonts and character placement may appear different when printing a transformed 
data stream on an ASCII printer than if the same data stream (not transformed 
to ASCII) had been printed on an AFP-capable printer. 

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(1) IM1 image data is an object format used in the Advanced Function Printing 
data stream. It is device-dependent and uses pel-to-pel mapping for 
presentation. 

Subtopics: 

1.16.1 Authorities and Locks 
1.16.2 Required Parameter Group 
1.16.3 Output Controls Table Format 
1.16.4 Field Descriptions 
1.16.5 Error Messages 

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HTH

/Paul
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