Re: Printer issue: refusing to print all 198 columns

Reporting back, I tried your settings for PAGRTT(90) and CPI(20) and it didn't work for us.

The following compile worked for a different printer:

CRTPRTF    FILE(AVRTWRK/FR39A029B) DEVTYPE(*IPDS) +
  PAGESIZE(66 198) LPI(6) CPI(20) OVRFLW(60)  +
  PAGRTT(*AUTO)

Yesterday, a developer on-site was helping and he printed the same spoolfile on his own shared printer, and it was perfect. Then he reprinted it on the user printer and got the same cutoff problem.

Turns out the physical printer I was testing with was defined with DEVTYPE( *IPDS ). His printer has device type of *SCS. Nevertheless, the printing was successful on the *SCS printer type even with *IPDS defined.

A search has referencing to /forcing/ an IPDS printer to use various CPI no matter the *COR parameter value, using HPT-Host Print Transform and a *WSCST object (workstation customizing object). Yikes! This is 2018 people! Every printer model has be different. (Okay for humans, but tiring with printers).

I've used HPT with network-connected printers to accept a page range restriction. I've used WSCST to direct the printer to get its paper from a specific drawer. But not this.

Any more help here?

Thanks,
Alan

On 5/30/18 2:31 PM, dlclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

"MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on 05/30/2018
02:27:10 PM:

I have a user trying to print a report with 198 columns, all of them

used.

The spool file that outputs has /all/ the print columns and all the data
columns.

It's written to an externally described printer file defined as having
the 198 print positions in the detail record.

The file is defined with CPI = 18, Pagesize( 66 198 *ROWCOL).

There is a CLLE with a couple of OVRPRTF parameters that are not
available with the externally described printer file object. I have
included PRTRTT( *AUTO ) and that got more columns on the page but it's
still cutting off about 50 print positions.

I found that I had to specify PAGRTT(90) and CPI(20) to get my
198-column report to print entirely on the page.


Sincerely,

Dave Clark