Re: Remote Printer questions

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's more a matter of what you are printing, and how many simultaneous
printings to handle. Big difference between single page *scs text invoices
and *afpds invoices with images. Host print transform will eat up memory.
The Work System Status(WRKSYSSTS and press F11 till you see *SPOOL pool)
screen will show your memory allocation (Pool Size) and Max Active.
Even at 300 printers, if the spool file is a tiny 1 page pick sheet in text,
you only
may need a moderate number in Max Active.
The Printing V redbook breifly says minimum 6 meg in pool for remote
printing,
with 2-3 meg per active printer, but if large number active then 0.5 to 1
meg per
active. Also mentions QPFRADJ (performance adjustment system value) is
usually too slow to react to spool file generation, because they start and
end
so quickly.
So - what are you printing and how many simultaneous printing?
hth
jim franz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@taylorcorp.com>
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 12:30 PM
Subject: Remote Printer questions


> Hello all,
>
> I have a more technical question that hopefully some knows the answer to.
> Over the next year, we will probably be setting up 300 remote printers (as
> in STRRMTWTR) could there be performance problems? I don't know for sure,
> but I think we have a 720 with at least 1 GB of RAM, maybe more. I don't
> know how to tell. Does it use resources?
>
> Mike
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