Re: How to print an IFS PDF file on a LAN printer

Hello Maria,

Am 10.08.2021 um 14:54 schrieb Maria Lucia Stoppa <mlstoppa@xxxxxxxxx>:

Given the holidays time we are in I am waiting for the maintainance service to call on us to help configure the Ricoh, hopefully, because I don't know what's needed to have this feature and how to install it.

I'm not well-seasoned with modern printers, but usually the firmware can deduct itself what's inside a print job and act on that accordingly.

As mentioned by Roberto and John, Ghostscript (in PASE) could be a solution. Usually, it's installed with some helper scripts providing a pdf2ps command, amongst others. Almost all modern printers understand PostScript, so it comes down to convert a PDF via GhostScript to PostScript, and upload that via FTP to the printer. Maybe the *USERASCII method hinted by Vern can be used to not needlessly fiddle with FTP.

You can even optimize that stuff by using UNIX style pipes and netcat in QSH:

cat pdffile |pdf2ps - - |nc printer-ip 9100

No tempfiles, thus no unnecessary disk I/O avoided. :-)

:wq! PoC