RE: Restarting Duplexed AFPDS Spool Does not Duplex

What is the best way to report this?

> please report this to ibm.... I will be going live with something
> like this in a few weeks. Lexmark laser with IPDS card,
> 4 drawers for 4 diff forms and all duplex.
>
> What was the IPDS problem?
>
> jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Nardone" <rick@midtel.net>
> To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 8:35 AM
> Subject: Restarting Duplexed AFPDS Spool Does not Duplex
>
>
> > Basic Background: Printing an AFPDS spool file with multiple customer
> > invoices to Ethernet attached laser printer.  Sometimes necessary to
> restart
> > at a specific downstream page number in that spool file(paper
> jams, etc).
> > IP attached printer, Host Print Transform.
> >
> > If re-starting a large spool file at a specific page number, duplexing
> > parameter on spool file is ignored.  It is there in the spool file
> > attribute, but simplex printing results.
> >
> > If re-starting from page 1 of the spool file duplexing DOES work.
> >
> > We were relying on the duplex(*yes) spool file parameter via CRTPRTF and
> > thought that perhaps the duplexing parameter used in this manner is
> somehow
> > conveyed in the first page of the spool file only?
> >
> > So, we changed to DDS keyword DUPLEX(*YES) in the record format for the
> > first page of each invoice and still restarting beyond page 1
> results in a
> > simplex printing.
> >
> > We are running v5r1, v5r2 upgrade in a few weeks.
> Researched/loaded PTFs
> > that might solve this(nothing specific found) with no improvement.
> >
> > IPDS gotcha? Hope not.  Thus far this new process is running far better
> with
> > HPT than IPDS..
> >
> > TIA...
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