Re: Printers with mailboxes

I do not remember how this works but I SWEAR I remember a routine you could call to send any string to a printer. Foggy memory of sending super secret special codes to enable MICR printing on checks.

Someone will probably come up with it before I remember but I'm certain there is a way.

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On 8/26/2018 8:31 PM, Don Brown wrote:

Ricoh provide printers with a mailbox function where jobs can be sent to
the printer and stored in a users mailbox.

This function requires an identifier, preferably the user ID to be sent to
the printer.

An example in a windows environment there are many @PJL SET statements sent
to the printer when a job is sent to the printer.

@PJL SET HOSTLOGINNAME = "UserName"

But when i run a communications trace for a job on the IBMi there is noting
in the trace for @PJL SET ... options

The printer is configured as a LAN printer and is using the *HPPJLDRV
System driver program.

I opened a PMR with IBM and was advised there is no option to send the user
name to the printer.

I was quite surprised at this as I was sure there was a way to do this -
actually I thought the name was sent by default. Maybe my memory is
failing me ... again.

Just hoping someone may have come across this and has a solution ?

Thanks


Don Brown