Re: How to automatically print webpage? -- RPG400-L

For Black-and-White printing only, we’re using HP Laserjet M402n. Currently on sale for $169 at Best Buy.

For color laser printing, we’re using HP M477FNW.

So not only do the folks on the floor gets new, modern printers for their Window’s printing, it configures just fine as a standard 3812 printer on our AS400.

Note, we’re running on V7R2 if that matters to you. We bought on printer to test it first, worked fine first time and ran with it.

Here’s a link to the printer on HP’s website. If you look at the specs link, then “Printer Languages”, you’ll see it supports Direct-PDF. No other packages or middle-man processes needed.

https://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-laserjet-pro-m402n

Hope this helps.

Eddie

On Sep 19, 2018, at 12:33 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What HP printers are you using?

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 3:30 PM, Eddie Gomez <gmon750@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For the past few years, HP laserjet printers that one can buy new for $120
support direct-PDF. We replaced most of our old and outdated AS400
printers with these. The benefit is that we use Scott Klement’s PRTSTMF
command to print .PDF files from our IFS to the printer directly from the
AS/400.

For labels, we’re migrating to Zebra ZD500 thermal/ink printers with also
support direct-PDF (with additional license). Again, with the PRTSTMF
command. Our .PDF labels have been printing with zero issues as well.

No 3rd party packages necessary. It’s been working flawless, and fast for
us. Prior to this, it was an old Windows Server package that was just
causing us nothing but headaches over the years.

On Sep 19, 2018, at 8:55 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Retrieving the PDF with GETURI or HTTPAPI would be easy enough. From

there

you just need to figure out how to print it. Hopefully in your database
you can then store the location and name of the file to associate it with
the order.

Some printers you can send PDFs to and they will print (I believe via

FTP),

but not all of them.

I believe Printing PDFs from the IFS has been covered a few times over

the

years. If the archive search is working, give it a go. Or just a Google
search may work too.

Bradley V. Stone
www.bvstools.com
MAILTOOL Benefit #22 <https://www.bvstools.com/mailtool.html>: Cost
starting at under $300 a year per partition!

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 9:48 AM Bob Cagle <bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a trading partner that wants to begin sending us their shipping
label instead of us generating it inhouse with UPS Worldship.

They have offered to either email us a PDF, or to include the URL of the
label in the EDI document. Here's an example:
http://lb.123stores.com/bkaasv

What I would like to do is to automatically print this web page when
processing the inbound EDI file without any input from a user, but I'm

not

quite sure how to go about doing so? Suggestions?

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk
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