Re: Remote Printing via tn5250 lp5250d

[Jim French <jim.french.137@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you - I'm a little confused - under what parm would I specify the 
pdt file?  I've been working with the MFRTYPMDL - perhaps that's my 
issue?  Thanks.


On 10/11/2017 2:22 PM, Paul Nelson wrote:
> According to this, you should be using HPPCL5.pdt or HPDSKJT.pdt
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> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim
> French
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> Subject: Remote Printing via tn5250 lp5250d
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> Hi,
>       I am attempting to print from an AS/400 to a remote printer at my
> home.  I am tn5250 to connect via tcp and lp5250d to set up the
> printer/outq on the AS/400.  The setup works fine - I can create the
> queue and when I direct a spool file to that queue it is pushed to my
> windows spool queue but it never prints.  It eventually just disappears
> from the queue.  I am trying to print to an HP Officejet 8610 Pro and I
> have tried various and sundry values for the MFRTYPMDL parm, but at this
> point I have kind of hit a brick wall.  Does anyone have any ideas on
> what value to use for the mfrtypmdl parm?  Below is my command string
> for my last attempt.
>
> Thank you!
>
> lp5250d env.DEVNAME=TEST13 env.IBMMFRTYPMDL='*HP5' pub400.com
>
> Jim+