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  3. October 2006

RE: Postscript OUTQ



Thanks Charles and Scott.  It's made by Imagistics (Pitney Bowes and Oce
merger).  The configuration page that it prints out states that it's a
model ipc1-im8130.


I went to the following Web site:
http://www.imagistics.com/products/downloads.asp
And looked up the technical specs for the im8130, and it states that it supports PCL5e/PCL6 as it's standard print language, and also supports PostScript 3 via emulation.
I followed the link to http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1455d75b61c75fdcc86256a1e00532f93 and was wondering if the model OC3133 setup would work since it's a multifunction device and is listed as PostScript 3.
Ignore the "PostScript" part of it. You won't be using PostScript if you follow the instructions on that page. Instead, look for something that discusses PCL5e or PCL6. When I look at that page, I see that all of the Oc printers support PCL5e/PCL6, and they all should be set up using the *HP5SI MFRTYPMDL. 


Also, I started looking through the config for the copier itself.  Under
the "raw job settings" it has settings for PCL font options.  If PCL is the
way to go then how do I specify that in the OUTQ config?  Since it lists
"host-based" as N then do I set Host Print Transform to *NO?
No, "host-based" and "Host Print Transform" are two very different things. "host-based" means that the printer doesn't understand any printer languages -- with a host-based printer, you MUST use the Windows printer driver, or you're out of luck. This is usually the case with very cheap single-user PC printers. Yours is "host based = NO" which is a good thing.
Host Print Transform is software in i5/OS that lets the system transform it's native printer languages (SCS and AFPDS) to a PC printer language like PCL or PPDS. That's how you tell it to convert to PCL (which is what you want.) 

This is my best guess for how to set up the printer...

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(my-device) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1)
         LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(9100) ONLINE(*YES) +
         PRTERRMSG(*INFO) +
         TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*HP5SI)
         RMTLOCNAME('x.x.x.x') +
         USRDFNOPT(*IBMSHRCNN) +
         SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) +
         TEXT('Dave''s Shiny New Photocopier')

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