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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
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