RE: Print device to Windows shared printer

The Windows people here changed it to Ethernet. I made an IP print device on my end, and we're golden.

Thank you




-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Schoen [mailto:Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2018 7:47 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Print device to Windows shared printer

Did you actually review the contents of the output files as I suggested ?

Print test page, make copy of c:\temp\test.txt, review in notepad++

Print IBMi document, make copy of c:\temp\test.txt, review in notepad++

I'm going to guess you have a printer formatting issue at this point perhaps. The IBMi might be sending bad data or at least data the printer doesn't like do it' discarding it perhaps ??

I'm out of ideas.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com

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message: 2
date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 22:01:42 +0000
from: Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Print device to Windows shared printer

They paused the Windows print queue, and the print documents show up there. When they un-paused the Windows queue, all the documents disappeared but nothing printed.



-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Taylor
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 8:57 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion' <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Print device to Windows shared printer

Thanks, I'll pass that on to our Windows people.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Schoen [mailto:Richard.Schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 7:18 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Print device to Windows shared printer

Create a new printer on the Windows server like an HP4100 or similar and set up a port for it that redirects to c:\temp\test.txt

Then when you print to the printer the output will go directly to a file so you can view the contents in something like notepad or notepad++

I have used this technique quite a few times to troubleshoot.

You can also pause the printer and items will queue up in the printer queue on Windows for that printer so at least you know they are getting through correctly, even if not printing.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Director of Document Management
e. richard.schoen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
p. 952.486.6802
w. helpsystems.com