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

Hi Patrick,

Yes, installing Ghostscript (in PASE) would be a great solution as it
doesn't imply to have printers updated with a specific card to obtain
direct print feature: the *USERASCII stream to the printer will be already
formatted in PCL.

The point is the only experience I have with PASE is 7z program
installation to zip/unzip files which I did following a link by Scott
Klement (as far as I remember).

What makes me feel uncomfortable with this solution is that I haven't found
any clear instruction page yet alongside with the fact that I know very
little about PASE, so I am asking myself what to do in case of trouble,
since Ghostscript installation seems to be a bit more complicated than 7z.

Anyway, I will think about it.

Thanks

Il giorno mar 10 ago 2021 alle ore 17:10 Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx>
ha scritto:

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

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