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Installation and Configuration Considerations for
FASTPTCP
Printer Installation and Configuration
Considerations
For network-connected printers, printer installation depends upon the network
equipment chosen. Typically, the details of the printer interface (such as baud rate or
physical interface cable) are outside the range of FASTPTCP control.
What is important for FASTPTCP is the print-job format expected by the printer and the
network address through which the printer can be reached. Based on the format
desired by the printer (PCL versus ASCII print controls, line mode versus block mode)
you configure the appropriate DEV DEVTYPE in Spoolcom, and you configure the
network address in the FASTCNFG file.
TELNET Terminal Servers and End of Print Job Considerations
When the print data is received by the terminal server from FASTPTCP, there is some
delay before the data is sent out the asynchronous port to the printer device. This
delay can be due to the slower nature of the asynchronous connection or it can be due
to a flow control stoppage caused by various conditions at the printer such as busy, out
of paper, or offline. As a result, some amount of data can remain within the terminal
server's internal buffers for a period of time. After sending all the data for a print job to
a terminal server, FASTPTCP can be configured to handle the job completion in
several ways.
For AWAN terminal servers, the FASTCNFG DEVICE entry should have
NOTMINGMARK=NO specified. Note that for AWAN 3883, 3884, and 3885 models
the PORT should be set to TYPE HARDCOPY using the AWAN RAS Management
Tool or the CLI command:
CHANGE PORT n TYPE HARDCOPY
and for AWAN 3886 models the PORT should be set to AWAN FASTP using the
CLI command:
CHANGE PORT n AWAN FASTP
In these configurations, FASTPTCP sends an IAC DO TM request after all the
print-job data has been sent and waits for an IAC DO TM response from the AWAN
server. When properly configured, all AWAN models send this response only after
all data has been sent out of the asynchronous port to the printer device. If the
AWAN port is reset or any network error occurs before the IAC DO TM response is
received by FASTPTCP, the print job is requeued for later retransmission.
If NOTIMINGMARK=YES is specified for AWAN 3883, 3884, and 3885 models, the
result is a loss of print data at the end-of-job. When FASTPTCP closes the TCP/IP
socket session immediately after sending the last print job data, the AWAN 3883,
3884, and 3885 models immediately discard any unsent data queued to the
asynchronous port. A similar loss of data can occur if the AWAN 3883, 3884, and
3885 models are not properly configured as PORT TYPE HARDCOPY.
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