IPDS to AFP (was Re: Confused about printing)

Charles,

Can you simply change an IPDS spooled file to AFPDS (the
printer device type attribute of the spooled file) and HPT
will work?  Or is there more involved?  I haven't work with
IPDS for a long time.  I would suspect (probably wrongly)
that there may be some proprietary IPDS information in
those spooled files?  Or maybe not...

Brad

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 14:24:46 -0400 
 CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Loyd,
> 
> Host Print Transform (HPT) can't handle *IPDS spool
> files.  You need to
> change the spool file to *AFPDS.
> 
> Leave the printer *DEVD alone.  You don't need AFP(*YES)
> when the printer is
> using HPT.
> 
> In other words, HPT can't do *IPDS to ASCII.  But it can
> do *AFPDS to ASCII.
> 
> HTH,
> Charles
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) 
> > [mailto:LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 12:04 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Confused about printing
> > 
> > 
> > I have an IBM 4312 printer I'd like to replace with a
> Dell 
> > M5200. Using the
> > recent "Help! Best Host Print Transform for Dell W5300 
> > Printer" thread as a
> > guide, I have set up the Dell as a *LAN/3812 with host
> print 
> > transform and
> > using the *IBMPJLDRV system driver. Currently no
> workstation 
> > customizing
> > object, user defined object, or data transformation
> program.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I was under the impression I was able to print IPDS
> spooled files with
> > barcodes to this printer, but the system holds the
> file. 
> > Also, printing
> > reports with MULTIUP(2) doesn't; it prints spooled
> files as 
> > if the multiup()
> > were not specified.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Somewhere else I read I could use the barcodes if I 
> > recompiled the DDS using
> > spooled file type AFPDS. However, I can't seem to get
> the 
> > Dell printer to be
> > an AFP capable printer with a device class of *LAN and
> type 3812.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there a "simple" matrix of which spooled file types
> work with which
> > printer types?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I have two goals with the Dell printer: 1) Support
> printing 
> > of bar codes -
> > how? What's the proper non-IPDS setup for the printer?
> 2) 
> > Support printing
> > of regular spooled files with MULTIUP(2). Is this an 
> > IPDS-only function or
> > is this supported with HPT?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Loyd Goodbar
> > 
> > Senior programmer/analyst
> > 
> > BorgWarner
> > 
> > E/TS Water Valley
> > 
> > 662-473-5713
> > 
> >  
> > 
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Bradley V. Stone
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