Canon printer on iSeries

[Paul Tykodi <ptykodi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Eugeniusz,

The Canon iR1270 supports the Canon Advanced Printing
Technology (CAPT) method of printing. CAPT is
effectively a raster mode style of printing with
special bi-directional printer control capabilities
included. As far as I know, IBM does not currently
offer a CAPT driver for the iSeries.

If you have iSeries Access, my suggestion would be to
use it to create a PC5250 printer session for this
Canon printer. 

In this case, you will need to configure an iSeries
Access PC5250 print session that is not using Host
Print Transform (uncheck the box Transform Print Data
to ASCII on AS/400). This configuration option will
allow the OS/400 EBCDIC data to be transferred
natively from the iSeries to the PC running iSeries
Access. 

If you also make sure that you do not select the Use
PDT checkbox, iSeries Access will convert your EBCDIC
data into a Windows format known as GDI on the PC
running iSeries Access. The GDI format is the generic
input format required by Windows print drivers. Canon
provides CAPT print drivers for a wide variety of
Microsoft Windows operating system versions. The
combination of iSeries Access PC5250 Printer Session
and Canon CAPT Windows Printer Driver should be able
to process your *SCS spool files correctly.

iSeries Access is only able to provide GDI format of
*SCS spool files. It will not be able to convert
*AFPDS or *USERASCII spool files into GDI format so
that the CAPT Windows printer driver can format the
information into the correct Canon format.

HTH

Best Regards,

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

E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxxx


>date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:41:56 +0100
>from: "ES Software" <es.soft@xxxxx>
>subject: Canon printer on iSeries
>
>Hi,
>
>How can I configure canon prinetr iR1270 on iSeries
>model 800 Oerating system V5R2M0.
>Thanks for information
>
>
>Eugeniusz Szmajduch
>ES Software
>Poland


                
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