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IPDS Printer and Host Setup Guide iSeries and AS/400 LAN Printing Using the Printer Standard Network Port or MarkNet Internal Print Server
Note 1
: IPDS pass through may be set to
*YES
. This may increase job performance. Selecting
*YES
may
change the fonts downloaded from the host and change paper jam recovery action between the host
and printer.
Note 2:
SEC15 is recommended. Refer to
“Printer and Host Timeout Values” [page 30]
for information on
selecting other
Release Timer
values.
Note 3:
Use outline fonts
controls the type of fonts downloaded to the printer. When set to
*YES
,
outline fonts are downloaded to the printer. When set to
*NO
, raster fonts are downloaded to the
printer. When the outline or raster fonts are marked eligible for capture on the host, the host will send
fonts which can be captured at the printer.
Note 4:
Capture host fonts at printer
must be set to
*YES
and fonts must be marked eligible
to be captured before the host will send fonts which can be captured to the printer. Refer to the IPDS
Emulation User's Guide for additional information on capturing fonts.
Step 3
Create a Printer Device Description
Note:
Examples showing parameters displayed on an AS/400 or iSeries may be different than the
parameters displayed on your system. Examples are shown with V6R1 parameters.
Create a printer device description for your printer using
CRTDEVPRT
.
Below is an example of a device description. The parameters in
bold
are the parameters which must be
changed for printing IPDS jobs.
PDF paper size drawer 2................
*LETTER
PDF multiple group handling:.........
Acknowledge multiple groups..........
*NO
Process option.....................
PDF fonts inline .....................
*YES
PDF data queue........................
*NONE
Library ............................
PDF mail server .....................
*SNDDST
Sender of PDF mail ...................
*SPLFOWN
PDF administrator ...................
*NONE
PDF user program .....................
*NONE
Library..............................
PDF mapping object....................
*NONE
Library..............................
PDF output queue......................
Library...................
PDF file location.....................
Save AFP data .......................
*NO
AFP output queue......................
Library..............................
Text description .....................
Device resource library list: ........
*DFT
Example CRTDEVPRT with parameters to change shown in
bold.
Device description.................... DEVD
>
IPDSPRT1
(
Note:
IPDSPRT is a user defined name.)
Device class.......................... DEVCLS
>
*LAN
Device type........................... TYPE
>
*IPDS
