RE: ASCII printer configuration

What websites say this will work?

This one say's it won't.

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/slkbase.NSF/7c4c0f5a4d52e3c4862569b4005d198a/17ab340fed4ddc61862569c10078aa3c?OpenDocument

or http://tinyurl.com/8k9ym


Few (no?) dot matrix printers work with PJL.


>From the same web page, try using SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV).


HTH,


Charles Wilt
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iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Lance Gillespie
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 5:45 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: ASCII printer configuration
> 
> 
> I need to attach an IBM 4247 matrix
> printer to our 520 (v5r3) using a
> parallel port of a Lexmark MarkNet 
> print server.
> 
> The MarkNet has a IP address
> that the iSeries can ping.
> 
> I vary the device on, start
> the writer, answer the forms
> message, WrkSplF shows the
> file in PND status, the MarkNet
> blinks its 'I've got data' light,
> and nothing else happens.
> 
> The Boulder and the Lexmark
> websites say this should work:
> 
> CRTDEVPRT DEVD(devname) DEVCLS(*LAN) +
> TYPE(3812) MODEL(1)  LANATTACH(*IP) + 
> PORT(9100) ATTACH(*DIRECT) ONLINE(*YES) +    
> FONT(11 *NONE) FORMFEED(*CONT) + 
> SEPDRAWER(*FILE)  PRTERRMSG(*INQ) +
> MSGQ(*CTLD) ACTTMR(170) INACTTMR(*SEC15) +  
> LINESPEED(19200) WORDLEN(8) PARITY(*NONE) + 
> STOPBITS(1) TRANSFORM(*YES)+
> MFRTYPMDL(*IBM4247DUAL) +
> PPRSRC1(*LETTER)  PPRSRC2(*NONE)+
> ENVELOPE(*NONE) ASCII899(*NO)+
> IMGCFG(*NONE) +  CHRID(*SYSVAL)+
> RMTLOCNAME('ip address here') +                    
> SYSDRVPGM(*IBMPJLDRV) 
>            
> but it does not.
> Any ideas where I can look?
> 
> TIA, lance
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