RE: HP Printers & the AS/400

[Neil Palmer <npalmer@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, it's a bit of work, but you can go and change your printer files,
or add OVRPRTF commands to your CL, so that the width defined is only
what is needed.  This is another of those 'sloppy' programming practices
(just defining all printer files as width 132) that has come back to
haunt us - sort of like using 2 digits for the year !  :-)

Sure, it's a pain if you add a column to a report and all of a sudden
you need to change the width from 80 to 96, but still - if the job's
worth doing, it's worth doing right !

As to other options - usually a printer definition has the COR (Computer
Output Reduction) feature turned on.
If you turn it off you should just end up with truncated reports
(hopefully just truncating blank space and no critical data !) instead.



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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Tate [SMTP:etate01@sun.hazelwood.k12.mo.us]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 1998 1:06 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: HP Printers & the AS/400
> 
> We have a winner!
> 
> Thanks to everyone that responded with suggestions.  Something that 
> looks so easy (and probably should be) has become a quest.  By doing 
> what Neil suggests below the print returns to "normal" size.  
> 
> Does anyone know if you can turn this compression "feature" off or is 
> it totally dependent on the print file definition?
> 
> Maybe I just need to buy everyone a magnifying glass and leave them 
> alone..........
> 
> > From:          Neil Palmer <npalmer@NxTrend.com>
> > To:            "'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'" <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> > Subject:       RE: HP Printers & the AS/400
> > Date:          Mon, 20 Jul 1998 14:37:10 -0500
> > Reply-to:      MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> 
> > Maybe the width defined for you printer file is 132, and you're only
> > using 80, but it THINKS it needs to compress it to fit the 52
> columns
> > you aren't using onto the page ?  Try an OVRPRTF QSYSPRT PAGESIZE(*N
> 80)
> > and hit the Print key, and see how that looks.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Neil Palmer                                
> 
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