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Setting up new Printronix P7000 printer with IGP Ethernet connected. Prints just fine except it form feeds an entire label at the end, wasting it. With hundreds of print jobs per day this is unacceptable.

Went into the WSCST object (WSCSTCONT132) and retrieved that. Changed the Form Feed '0C' to 00 and applied it. Blows up the IGP string wherever IBM i Inserts a form feed because 00 isn't valid there. Tried other characters (07, OD, Space, ^) with the same results. IGP mode has an 'Ignore Char' option so we set that to the character we're using. It seems not to honor the ignore.

From the printer config page:

087 Ignore Char
088 Ignore Mode Enable
089 Select Char 94 /* 94 is 5E Hex */

Any ideas how to get IBM i to NOT DO ANY FORM FEEDS period. Or how to get IGP to honor the ignore character?? This is driving us nuts.

Device Description:

CHGDEVPRT DEVD(PRTPICK4)
FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT) /* Tried Continuous, generates LOTS of LF's */
TRANSFORM(*YES)
MFRTYPMDL(*WSCST)
PPRSRC1(*NONE)
USRDFNOBJ(*NONE)
USRDTATFM(*NONE)
USRDRVPGM(QGPL/TSPLPRD)
WSCST(QGPL/PRINTRONIX)

Our WSCST: (compiled to PRINTRONIX above)

:WSCST DEVCLASS=TRANSFORM.

:TRNSFRMTBL.
:INITPRT
DATA ='00'X.
:SPACE
DATA ='20'X.
:CARRTN
DATA ='0D'X.
:FORMFEED
DATA ='5E'X. /* 5E is the ^ Character. Not used by IGP */
:LINEFEED
DATA ='0A'X.
:EWSCST.

iDeas??

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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