RE: Printing PC output on A twinax Printer

Kirk,

Have you installed the SCS or AFP printer drivers that come with Client
Access?  These should handle the translation from your PC to an EBCDIC
printer.

Regards,
Andy Nolen-Parkhouse

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@midrange.com [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@midrange.com] On Behalf Of Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 12:47 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Printing PC output on A twinax Printer
> 
> Kirk,
> 
> It makes sense to me that your first scenario does not work.  Using the
> LPR/LPD from W2K, you really haven't told your PC application that it
> is
> printing to an EBCDIC device.
> 
> The same probably applies to your second configuration (sharing via
> NetServer).  If you share the printer on a Windows network, how are you
> telling the system to translate from ASCII to EBCDIC?
> 
> Do you get any translated output at all?  Can you display the spool
> file
> entry using WRKSPLF?  If not, then odds are you have entirely ASCII
> output which will give you unpredictable results.
> 
> Regards,
> Andy Nolen-Parkhouse
> 
> > On Behalf Of Kirk Goins
> > Subject: Printing PC output on A twinax Printer
> >
> > I have a client that I wants to print PC docs on a twinax printer.
> They
> > print a large quanity of a
> > few docs on NCR forms. This was being done via OfficeVision but now
> > they
> > are on V5R1.
> >
> > I have tried 2 basic approaches and both are giving us the same
> error.
> > 1st was to setup in W2K an LPD/LPR config pointing athe 400 outq and
> > using a GenericText Only
> >         printer driver.
> > 2nd was to share the printer via OPS Nav and again used a GenericText
> > Only printer driver.
> >
> > In both cases the file shows up and trys to print, but we get an
> error
> > (sorry don't have the 3 handy)
> > that sounds like an unprintable chars/font. The error msg isn't very
> > specific and the writer shuts down.
> >
> > The printer is 6408 and was set at 5225 eml but now is set at 4234-2
> > (sorry no IPDS) and it errors
> > the same bith ways.
> >
> > What am I missing???
> >
> >
> > Kirk Goins