Re: V5R1 ASCII Printer problem

["Jim Franz" <franz400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Hopefully bringing yourself to the current PTF levels will resolve your
> OS/400 Host Print Transform difficulties.

I wish IBM would make a "Printing" group ptf. It is a major pain for sites
with advanced printing apps to keep track of the various ptf listings in the
Knowledge Base. And why all printing ptf's don't make the cumes I
will never understand.. Most sites are doing some lan printing.
jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Tykodi" <p.tykodi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2003 4:23 PM
Subject: Re: V5R1 ASCII Printer problem


> Dear Evan,
>
> V5R1 did have some initial difficulties with printing support that were
> widely reported by the iSeries - AS/400 focused journals and newsletters.
> Hopefully bringing yourself to the current PTF levels will resolve your
> OS/400 Host Print Transform difficulties.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> /Paul
> --
> Paul Tykodi
> National Product Manager
> Print4sight Inc.
>
> p: 603-431-0606 x115
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>
>
> >Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 08:02:09 +1200
> >From: Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: V5R1ASCII Printer problem
> >
> >Hi all
> >
> >I had a customer upgrade to V5R1 over the weekend. All went well except
for
> >some problems with printers once the upgrade was complete.
> >
> >The customer uses a variety of HP Laser printers (1200, 2100TN, 2200 etc)
> >which are configured as 3812 printers, not remote outqueues. The devices
> >have host printer transform specified as *YES, various manufacturer
models
> >(as you'd expect) and also use workstation customization tables to
control
> >the printable area using the PRTBDR tag. The also use an overlay on the
> >prints sent to these devices that puts some lines and graphics onto the
> >prints sent to the outqueue.
> >
> >After the upgrade the positioning, size and font of the text on the
various
> >printers was different. It was as if the previous printer setups had been
> >altered. Text is no longer positioned correctly in the overlay, although
> >the print is usable (just). It seems like the relationship between the
text
> >and the overlay positioning is now different.
> >
> >I went through the process of re-configuring a printer but could not get
it
> >to print satisfactorily, the symptoms described above remain after going
> >through the process of setting up a printer from scratch.
> >
> >I have identified some PTF's relating to IP printing and host print
> >transform that are not on the cume - although the descriptions are not
> >exactly what I am experiencing,  short of that I am stuck for ideas.
> >
> >Does anyone have any suggestions as to what might have changed that we
have
> >not accounted for or what might be causing the problem ?
> >
> >Thanks in advance
> >Regards
> >Evan Harris
>
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