RE: Confused about printing

["Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Changing the printer file from *IPDS to *AFPDS works. However, there must
have been some catch between IPDS and AFPDS, because the barcodes print
"fatter" through AFPDS than IPDS does. 

We also noticed this when we tried to print the spooled file as IPDS on
another IBM printer with IBM IPDS installed. The barcodes are thinner on the
4312/17/24 model printers than on the two 1140 printers we have, or any
other printer (HP) with IPDS capability. 

The short story is, yes it works, but I need to rearrange everything
horizontally in the printer file to accommodate for the fatter barcodes, as
well as reduce the barcode ratio from 3 to 2. Somewhere I remember that 3 is
the correct ratio, but the barcodes are too wide!

Thanks,
Loyd

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
E/TS Water Valley
662-473-5713
-----Original Message-----
From: Goodbar, Loyd (ETS - Water Valley) [mailto:LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 14:58
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Confused about printing

OK, thanks! I will try this in test tomorrow. (Too many fires right now!)

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
E/TS Water Valley
662-473-5713

-----Original Message-----
From: CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 13:25
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Confused about printing

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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