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2-7 AS/400 HPT Printing Support (using HP FTYPMDL and WCO)
2-7-5 What is IBM AS/400?
AS/400 is a server product introduced by IBM in 1998. AS/400 has been changed its name to “iSeries”,
and got accumulatively more than 750,000 machines on the market since 1998. More than 150
countries have been using it and OS/400, its standard Operating System, has been localized to 51
languages. We could say that it is the most sold server product as a computer system of a single
brand.
Especially from the beginning of the A/S 400 release, O/S 400 has been used for many kinds of critical
mission operations such as personnel affaire system, salary system, accounting system, sales
management, logistics, product management, etc.
2-7-6 Existing legacy printing environment
What do you image as for printing on critical mission operations? You may think it difficult, but actually,
we believe you have seen it around you.
For example, packing slips, salary bill, credit card bill, telephone call bill, product specific, etc.
The existing print way is like the following. You order a printing job from a special terminal, the
exclusive form of a carbon copy formula is set to a line dot printer, and printing directions are applied
just like below.
2-7-7 Connect MFP/LP in AS/400 Environment
How printers can be connected in AS/400 environment?
AS/400 sends EBICDIC(Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code) datastream, which can
be receive by line printer or special printers, which supports the emulation.
On the other hand, a general office LP is ASCII printer and cannot receive EBICDIC datastream.
A kind of translator (way to transform the data stream) is required between AS/400 and ASCII printer.
AS/400
Line Printer
