I would suggest your choice for the mfrtypmdl is not good for this reason:
M652dn Enterprise is a color printer , as was the previous printer it
replaced.
M605 which you saw as "close to the same number" is black and white, but is
Enterprise.
I've never had success using a b&w mfrtypmdl for a color printer, or visa
versa.
This is more like the M553dn Enterprise and the M750dn Enterprise
I would use the *LEXMARKC750 or *HPCOLORLJ - I had someone from IBM tell
me years ago at Common that if they recommend multiple mfrtypmdls in the
online doc, the 1st one is the "most recommended..." - try them out.
Btw - the only time I've seen spooling where the printer did not complete
the printing, but the system spool was in SAV status (which indicates the
printer buffer accepted the whole spool) was if an operator, changing paper,
hit a "clear" button...
Jim Franz
-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff
Crosby
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:29 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: HP M652dn printer - not printing entire spool file
All,
Background
==========
IBM i 7.3, current on PTFs. We use FormSprint to generate color invoices.
We recently replaced an HP CP4025dn printer with an HP M652dn because the
old printer has had it.
For the new printer, I literally varied off the device, made 2 changes to
the device description, and varied it on. The 2 changes were to the TEXT
and MFRTYPMDL parms. A RTVCFGSRC of the new device description looks like
this:
CRTDEVPRT DEVD(HP1) +
DEVCLS(*LAN) +
TYPE(3812) +
MODEL(1) +
LANATTACH(*IP) +
PORT(9100) +
ATTACH(*DIRECT) +
ONLINE(*YES) +
FONT(011 *NONE) +
FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT) +
SEPDRAWER(*FILE) +
PRTERRMSG(*INFO) +
MSGQ(*LIBL/PRTMSGS) +
ACTTMR(170) +
INACTTMR(*SEC15) +
LINESPEED(19200) +
WORDLEN(8) +
PARITY(*NONE) +
STOPBITS(1) +
TRANSFORM(*YES) +
MFRTYPMDL(*HP5SI) +
PPRSRC1(*LETTER) +
PPRSRC2(*LETTER) +
ENVELOPE(*NUMBER10) +
ASCII899(*NO) +
IMGCFG(*NONE) +
CHRID(*SYSVAL) +
RMTLOCNAME('192.168.0.181') +
USRDFNOPT(*IBMSHRCNN) +
SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV) +
TEXT('HP M652dn (HP1)') +
PUBLISHINF(*UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *UNKNOWN *BLANK +
(*UNKNOWN))
The MFRTYPMDL of the old CP4025 printer was *LEXMARKC750 because that's what
this page:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019534
recommended. The new printer, M652dn, is not listed. The closest I could
find was M603dn which suggested a MFRTYPMDL of *RICOHAP3200 or *HP5SI or
*HP4000.
I picked *HP5SI just because.
The Issue
========
We're having no issues with most everything printed except invoices.
We use the printer to print invoices from the IBM i. A daily batch will be
150-300 pages. Both days we have done this, it printed 120-150 pages of the
spool file and skipped the rest. Went on to the next spool file as if the
remaining pages did not exist. The spool file automatically goes to SAV
status, so I changed the PAGERANGE parm, released it, and got the rest of
the pages. There is nothing in the printer message queue. There is nothing
in the printer event log.
This is the only IBM i spool file of this size as most reports are made into
PDFs and emailed, so I don't have another to try. I have done 1 Windows
printout of 160 pages (the operator's guide for this printer) and it
completed fine.
Anyone got an M652dn attached to IBM i? Would changing the MFRTYPMDL do
anything? I don't want to just start making guesses.
Thanks.
midrange.com
