As/400 - Printing Via A Device Description - SEH Print Server Installation Manual

Device
Description
Print Server Installation Manual
7 AS/400 - Printing via a Device
Description
This chapter describes the installation of your print
server in an AS/400 environment using a device
description for printing.
The print servers fully support the SCS data stream of the IBM
AS/400/iSeries. For IPDS data, only the conversion of fonts is
possible. Other IPDS features still have to be converted using special
data stream converters that are switched between the print server
and the printer. In AS/400 there are two ways to operate network
printers:
• using a remote printer queue (RMTPRTQ)
• using a device description
In both cases the print-out is carried out via the AS/400/iSeries
spool output system.
For information on how to prepare the print server for printing
using a remote output queue, see:
Starting with OS/400 V3R7, network printers can be connected to an
enhanced device description via IP. To this purpose, special entries
are made in the device description for the keywords DEVCLS(*LAN),
LANATTACH (*IP) and RMTLOCNAME. As in the case of locally
connected printers, error messages from the printer will accumulate
in a message queue so that the printout can easily be controlled.
To use this integration method, the Print Service Facility OS/400
(5769TC1 TCP/IP Connectivity Utilities) license program, which is
available as standard feature with Release 3.7 and later has to be
installed.

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