RE: Printing directly to a printer on a different system

[George Kinney <GKinney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Do you know a way that we can send spool files directly from the
> iSeries to the consolidator.  If they have an iSeries, i was going to
> tell them to setup an outqueue and use the SNDTCPSPLF command to send
> directly to the out queue, but if not what are my options.
>
> We are not sure if the consolidator to whom they want to send the
> spool files has an iSeries, but I didn't know if any you have some
> other ideas? Do you know where I can get information on how to send
> spool files across systems?
>

Most modern network printers/servers support LPD/R natively, so SNDTCPSPLF
should 
work fine since that is the transport it uses. You could also configure a
RMTOUTQ, 
which uses the same LPR process, but skips the SNDTCPSPLF step. 

The destination server doesn't have to be an OS/400 box, LPD is a standard
service 
provided by (or at least available on) most modern operating systems.
(win2k3, win2k, 
winNT, Unix, Linux, OS/390, etc.) 

Several of the label printers that I am familiar with also support receiving
label 
data directly via FTP as well. (Zebra for sure)