Re: InfoPrint 1372

Hi Pat,

I believe the dual addressing (IPDS + SCS) capability
of the twinax card is to provide compatibility with as
wide a variety of application output as possible.

An example would be *USERASCII output. Many of the IBM
Midrange host based applications, which support
electronic forms merge and complex document creation,
send ready for the printer data formats (usually PCL
or PostScript) directly from the IBM host to the
printer as *USERASCII format. If you define a printer
as *IPDS, the operating system will not allow
*USERASCII data to be sent to it.

For customers that might have some *AFPDS or *IPDS
based applications and some *USERASCII based
applications creating complex documents for twinax
attached printers, the IBM twinax card allows for both
formats to be received and processed by the same
physical printer.

If enabled, the dual addressing capability requires
you to select two *different* twinax addresses. One
for the SCS (3812 model 1) description and one for the
*IPDS description.

As Steve has mentioned to you, the printer's front
panel menu gives you access to the settings that need
to be changed. You should set the SCS twinax address
to disabled, the IPDS twinax address to the value you
require, and then choose twinax as the input for the
IPDS data stream.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
--
Paul Tykodi
Principal Consultant
TCS - Tykodi Consulting Services LLC

E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxxx

>date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:04:27 -0500
>from: Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Re: InfoPrint 1372
>
>I appreciate the comments on this.
>
>This dual address thing was/is throwing me.
>
>Do you use the same address for both ???
>
>Why doesn't the printer report in as IPDS ???
>
>All I wanted was for this printer to appear as
>a 4028, which is what it's replacing...
>
><snip>


                
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