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Brad,I am referring to direct PDF printing (in batch) from the /400. Even HP does not make many direct PDF printers. Add the requirement for medium to high speed (at least 50ppm, probably higher as the usage ramps up) and a high duty cycle (150K - 250K pages per month) and this becomes a real issue.
For one-off printing a local printer is fine. For high volume, not so good. -mark At 7/14/05 03:35 PM, you wrote:
What type of printer wouldn't print PDF? Or are you referring to printing PDFs from the AS/400 directly to an IBM printer or something? I would think it would be fairly painless to buy a cheapo laser/inkjet and put it on the network as well as the PDFs, thus "mimicking" an outq and attached printer. I could be misunderstanding, though. :) Brad On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:53:36 -0400 "M. Lazarus" <mlazarus@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Brad, > > I recently ran into a situation that would have save the > client a lot of > money and time had they been easily able to do that. PDF > is a fairly common format. They have thousands of PDF > documents that their users and clients can view, email or > print on demand. > > But shortly after they are first generated (on an > overnight or weekend > run) they need to be printed (for legal reasons.) There > are a limited number of printers that print PDF directly, > so they had to buy a printer dedicated to the task, > although they already had high speed printers (albeit > ones that didn't print PDFs.) The alternative was to run > it through a Windows driver attached printer. Neither > solution was ideal. Having the ability to flip it to > *IPDS would have been great. > > -mark > > > At 7/14/05 12:10 PM, you wrote: > >I'd be curious as to why you'd want to do this? :) > > > >Brad > > > >On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:00:45 -0500 > > Edith Lueke <lueke@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> There are a lot of posts on changing spool files to > PDF. > >> How about the > >> reverse? Is that possible? > >> ******************** > >> > >> Edith Lueke > >> User-Centered Design Team, iSeries > >> http://w3.rchland.ibm.com/~lueke > >> email: lueke@xxxxxxxxxx > >> http://www.ibm.com/eserver/iseries/ucd > >> 507-253-4908 Tie: 8-553-4908 > >> > >> Few things can help an individual more than to place > >> responsibility on him, > >> and to let him know that you trust him. -- Booker T. > >> Washington > > -- > This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion > (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list > To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, > visit: > http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l > or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Before posting, please take a moment to review the > archives > at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. > Bradley V. Stone BVS.Tools www.bvstools.com -- This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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