Xerox DocuPrint 180 IPS Series, Installation Planning Manual

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DEFINING THE PRINTER TO THE HOST: TCP/IP ATTACHMENT
E-32 XEROX DOCUPRINT 96/4635/180 IPS INSTALLATION PLANNING GUIDE
5. Ensure that the Device name selected on the Device list is the
IPS printer you defined previously.
6. Select Setup. The printer queue is created on the OS/2
desktop.
7. To make this queue available to other users on the LAN, follow
the procedures documented in either the Installation Cookbook
for AS/400 or the Installation Cookbook for S/370 .
Note: Once the OS/2 Printer Queue object has been created on the
Desktop, do not attempt to alter its values using its Settings dialog.
Return to the PSF/f2 folder and the Control Panel to make any
necessary changes.
5. Test the printer connection in OS/2
Test the printer by one of the following methods to ensure OS/2 can
make a connection with it:
•
Ping the printer from your OS/2 system to ensure the OS/2 can
establish a connection with the TCP/IP-attached IPS.
•
To verify that the OS/2 system can pass output to the printer,
send a short ASCII text file from the host through PSF to print
on the IPS. (Refer to your IPS
Guide to Configuring and
Managing the System for printing procedures.)
Pinging the printer – OS/2 To ping the printer, enter the following command on an OS/2
command line:
PING ip-address
ip-address specifies the internet protocol (IP) address of the IPS
printer (refer to the configuration worksheet, earlier in this section).
If your ping is successful:
Note: A successful ping usually indicates that the OS/2 system can
communicate with the IPS. However, you could receive a successful
ping even if the IP address of the TCP/IP-attached printer is a
duplicate of another IP address.
Table E-25. Parameters for PSF/2 device definition
Item description Default Source of value Comments Your value
Queue Name None Your choice Internal name of queue
Queue Description None Your choice Appears under the icon
on the OS/2 Desktop
as the name of the IPS
printer queue.
Table E-26. Example of a successful ping – OS/2
EZA0458I Ping V3R1: Pinging host 9.99.12.33
(Use ATTN to interrupt)
EZA0463I PING: Ping #1 response took 0.084 seconds.
Successes so far = 1.