IPDS to AFP (was Re: Confused about printing)

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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