Re: --- AS400 Printing, Can This Be Solved ??? ---

Hey All,

        Priority is one way to do this with the Printek printers.  They have
three tractors and you can put the same or different forms in each path,
then use a Workstation Customizing object so that each tractor is a "drawer"
and all the forms print.  While you can do use Priority, all same Pri-1s
print on tractor 1, then all Pri-2s print on tractor 2 say, until a Pri-1
appears in the queue, following this all the Pri-3s would be last out....

        Second way is to use a monitoring program and chgwtr (OUTQ) and
rotate through the three outqs...

        An yes,I have seen this work with the IP Ethernet adapter and
CRTDEVPRT *LAN....

        Jeff Silberberg...

----- Original Message -----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: --- AS400 Printing, Can This Be Solved ??? ---


> At 05:36 PM 8/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>
> I don't have the answer to your question, but what kind of printer is
this?
>
> Al
>
>
>
>
> >             Can this be solved?
> >
> >         We have a printer that has 3 tractors that has one output queue
> >         and a writer that is attached and started, one form type for all
> > three
> >         tractors.
> >
> >         What happens is when spool files are created and sent to this
> >         output queue, there is a cl that is used to send the appropriate
> > spool
> >         file to the correct tractor (drawer).
> >
> >         This all works fine, BUT we would like all spool files that
print to
> >         tractor (drawer) 1 to be first, followed by all spool files that
> >print to
> >         tractor (drawer) 2 to be second.
> >
> >         What currently happens is any spool file for tractor (drawer) 1
> >prints,
> >         then switches to tractor (drawer) 2, then switches back to
tractor
> >(drawer) 1,
> >         and so on and so on...
> >
> >         I don't think you can sort the spool files so all drawer 1's are
> >first, or can you?
> >
> >         Can you associate two output queues to the same writer?  Don't
know
> >if this is
> >         even doable.
> >
> >         We want to try an eliminate any time spent starting a writer for
a
> >certain form
> >         type, that is why all spool files have the same form type or
> >answering a message
> >         to change form types, alignments etc.
> >
> >         We could get a cutter for this printer, but management does NOT
want
> >to spend
> >         any more money.
> >
> >         This printer is a central printer for our customer service
> >department, and management
> >         does NOT want everyone to have their own printers.  Printing to
this
> >printer is done
> >         all day, so they need their printouts on demand.
> >
> >         Any suggestions that we can try would be greatly
appreciated!!!!!
> >
> >
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