Re: how to "wrap" printer output with PJL and PCL printer commands?

You might want to search google or the Midrange archives for ASCII 
Transparency.  This is a technique where you can wrap PCL or other ASCII 
commands within the body of a spool file or right at the beginning. 

Hope this helps. 

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Good questions and I should have been more clear.

By "wrapping the print" I mean that whatever printed output is being sent 
to 
the printer from the OUTQ, I need to prefix some lines with PJL and PCL 
commands to the beginning and I need to append some other lines of PJL and 

PCL commands to the end. These are escape sequences that instruct a 
printer 
to do certain things. After you send your print with these settings you 
have 
to make sure to reset things to the way they were before or everything 
else 
sent to the printer will inherit those attributes whether you wanted them 
to 
or not.

At this point, we don't need to be concerned with sending print to various 

mailboxes depending on the requesting user. For now, there will be only 
one 
mailbox indicating it is print from the iSeries. This will only be 
used/shared by Tech Services users.