Re: Restarting Duplexed AFPDS Spool Does not Duplex

Hi Paul;

We tried what you suggested to get around our Duplex problem and the ouput
was still single sided when you start at a page other than page 1.  We have
came up with a work around that seems to work with what we have done so far.
The printer involved is an IBM Infoprint 1140.  I retrieved that *LEXOPTRAT
HPT object as a base for a workstation customization object.
I then forced the SMPXPRT hex code to equal the DUPXPRT hex code, in effect
making everything duplex. I compiled the customization object and put it
into the device description.  The large spool file prints duplex no matter
what page we start on now.  What is strange is that any output done with
duplex(*no) is still only printing on one side of a sheet of paper but it
still accomplishes what we want to do.


Charley Spickerman(charley@midtel.net)
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The Middleburgh Telephone Company
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date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:41:40 -0500
from: "Paul Tykodi" <p.tykodi@print4sight.com>
subject: Re: Restarting Duplexed AFPDS Spool Does not Duplex

Hi Rick,

When you restart a spool file from a known point in the file (not page 1),
the OS/400 HPT function believes that the printer already has the correct
report format resident within itself and that it doesn't need to have a
reminder sent to it. As you mention, recovery from certain error conditions
at the printer will cause it to flush the known format for the job it was
processing, which can cause loss of spool file attributes when it starts
printing again.

To resolve the issue, you should place the active spool file on hold and
then stop and start the OS/400 writer. You can now release the held job,
specifying to start printing from the page where the error occurred, and the
format will be correct.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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>Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:35:04 -0500
>From: "Rick Nardone" <rick@midtel.net>
>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...