RE: How Do You Override Default Courier Font on 3130/3160

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Clayton Char wrote:

>We are converting over from impact
>to laser printing. Our spooled files are
>set to 6 LPI, formsize 66 long and 132 wide.
>They are still using *SCS with the page
>rotation set to *AUTO.  We have been able to
>print on both sides with an overlay of
>shaded bands like our continuous paper.
>
>The output looks fine on the IBM 3130 and 3160.
>It converts to landscape and sizing appears to
>be correct. The problem is the ugly default
>courier font.  The serifs make reading difficult.
>I've tried overriding the font using
>OVRPRTF but PSF always does a font substitution.
>
>Has anyone overriden this to something like
>a Gothic font?  How do you do it?  What font
>code is it?  Do you set this on the printer side?

I haven't seen an answer to this yet.  I don't have a 3130 on-site to test
with.  The fonts are listed in the Printer Device Programming book
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/v5r1/ic2924/books/c4157134.pdf
Appendix D.  Gothic 10 pitch is 026, 036, 040.

Having said that, I'm not sure how the machine chooses a font when the page
rotation is done.  Perhaps if you set PAGRTT(90) FONT(222) you'd have better
luck than allowing the machine to pick a small font on it's own.
  --buck