Re: AFPDS printing or other recommendations -- RPG400-L

We’re using all new HP laser jet printers (both color and B&W). The laser printers have to support PDF-direct, which almost any printer made in the last few years support natively. It worked so well for our IBM I shop, that we replaced most of our old printers with new $150 printers from our local Best Buy store. All the printers have built-in ethernet, and configured as a 3812 printer on the AS400.

We even use this option to print PDF’s on our Zebra ZD500 label printers as well. PRTSTMF worked fine on all of them.

On Jul 15, 2020, at 16:02, Don Brown via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We generate a lot of pdf's that we email.

After reading your post Eddie I downloaded the PRTSTMF and gave it a test.

It failed but I am guessing it is just the printer configuration.

Could I ask what printer you are using to print the pdf's and the
associated device description.

Thanks

The error we receive is: CPI3373
Writer PRT07 cannot re-direct file QSYSPRT to device PRT07
Cause . . . . . : Writer PRT07 could not re-direct file QSYSPRT number 3
job
924900/USER/QPADEV0001 created on system MSD820 on 16/07/20 08:54:02 to

device PRT07. ASCII data cannot be converted to the format required to

process the file on that device. If device PRT07 is a PC printer, the
re-direction was required because the page width, page length, lines per

inch, or font attributes of file QSYSPRT are not supported by the
device. If
device PRT07 is a printer configured as AFP(*YES), an image
configuration
object or a form definition and page definition may be required in order
to
print the file.
Recovery . . . : File QSYSPRT can only be processed on a PC printer. If

device PRT07 is a PC printer, either process file QSYSPRT on another PC

printer which supports the attributes of file QSYSPRT or re-create the
file
specifying page width, page length, lines per inch and font attributes
that
are supported by the printer. If device PRT07 is a printer configured as

AFP(*YES), specify an image configuration object for the printer, or
re-create the file with a form definition and page definition and try
printing the file again. This allows some types of PC data to be
printed.

Don Brown

From: "Eddie Gomez" <gmon750@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on IBM i" <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 16/07/2020 04:23 AM
Subject: Re: AFPDS printing or other recommendations
Sent by: "RPG400-L" <rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

We generate all our reports as .PDF’s, and send them to the printer as a
stream file using Scott Klement’s PRTSTMF command. Would this help you?

On Jul 15, 2020, at 09:00, dfreinkel <dfreinkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I have figured out the printing and it is generating the print file as
needed. I can see the report in ACS as a PDF and it prints correctly

from

the PDF to the printer.

When I print it to my HP printer as a 3812 printer, it prints a blank

page.

I am using host print transform.

How should the printer be configured?
I assume it's a printer configuration issue. I have attached the
configuration below.

Darryl Freinkel
A4G.
Tel: 770.321.8562 Ext 111 | Cell: 678.355.8562

Display Device Description
LCNDEV
07/15/20
10:50:27
Device description . . . . . . . . : DEVD PRT_HP2025

Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : OPTION *BASIC

Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT

Device class . . . . . . . . . . . : DEVCLS *VRT

Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : TYPE 3812

Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : MODEL 1

Advanced function printing . . . . : AFP *NO

Online at IPL . . . . . . . . . . : ONLINE *NO

Attached controller . . . . . . . : CTL QVIRCD0001

Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : FONT

Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . : 011

Point size . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE

Form feed . . . . . . . . . . . . : FORMFEED *AUTOCUT

Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . : SEPDRAWER *FILE

Separator program . . . . . . . . : SEPPGM *NONE

Printer error message . . . . . . : PRTERRMSG *INFO
Message queue . . . . . . . . . . : MSGQ QSYSOPR
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . : *LIBL
Current message queue . . . . . . : QSYSOPR
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . : QSYS
Last activity date . . . . . . . . : 07/15/20
Host print transform . . . . . . . : TRANSFORM *NO
Manufacturer type and model . . . : MFRTYPMDL *HPCOLORLJ
Paper source 1 . . . . . . . . . . : PPRSRC1 *LETTER
Paper source 2 . . . . . . . . . . : PPRSRC2 *LETTER
Envelope source . . . . . . . . . : ENVELOPE *NUMBER10
ASCII code page 899 support . . . : ASCII899 *YES

Image configuration . . . . . . . : IMGCFG *NONE
Workstation customizing object . . : WSCST *NONE
User-defined object . . . . . . . : USRDFNOBJ *NONE
Object type . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE
Data transform program . . . . . . : USRDTATFM *NONE
User-defined driver program . . . : USRDRVPGM *NONE
Dependent location name . . . . . : DEPLOCNAME *NONE
Allocated to:
Job name . . . . . . . . . . . . . : PRT_HP2025
User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QSPLJOB
Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 047271
Published . . . . . . . . . . . . : *NO

Publishing information . . . . . . : PUBLISHINF

Support duplex . . . . . . . . . : *UNKNOWN

Support color . . . . . . . . . : *UNKNOWN

Pages per minute black . . . . . : *UNKNOWN

Pages per minute color . . . . . : *UNKNOWN

Location . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BLANK

Data streams supported . . . . . : *UNKNOWN

Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : TEXT Device created for
LCNDEV.

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