Re: How do I find the model of a Printer?

Hi Booth,

As Pat Barber mentioned, many of the 4234 models supported a wide variety of
CPI values. One of the earliest non-IPDS models of IBM 4234 (the model 002)
only supported 10 and 15 CPI. Your rather new printer sounds like it is
emulating this particular model of IBM 4234 which is preventing you from
requesting that the printer use 12 CPI.

As Pat mentioned in his post, you will need to find out the actual model of
IBM printer that you have received to know what it can actually do. If it
can emulate a 4214 model 002, that would give you support for requesting the
following CPI values from the host: 5, 8.5, 10, 12, 15, and 16.7. The
physical printer mechanism would determine which of the CPI's could actually
be supported.

Good Luck!

Best Regards,

/Paul
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>Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:08:59 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>From: "Booth Martin" <Booth@MartinVT.com>
>To: "midrange-l@midrange.com" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
>Subject: How do I find the model of a Printer?
>Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
>
>An old Sys/36 printer was replaced by a new IBM printer 3 years ago.  It is
>not in the same place I am so I can't just walk over and look at it.
>WRKDEVD says the printer is a 4234 printer.  Can this be so?  I have the
>feeling that this printer is in fact far more capable than a 4234 printer
>but was configured as a 4234 to insure no problems with the Sys/36
>applications still running on the iSeries.
>
>What has started me on this issue is that I wish to print 12 cpi and I am
>getting hardware halts saying that 12 cpi is unsupported.  I can not
believe
>a brand new printer manufactured by IBM in 1999 is incapable of printing 12
>cpi.
>
>Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Even "RTFM"  if
you
>d also tell me which manual.


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