Best Practice for Adding IP Printers to an iSeries

[PulsaMatt]

First, I should say I'm very new to the iSeries. I've worked in the IT department for almost two years but was never exposed to the iSeries until recently, now I need to come up to speed quickly to help reduce the wait time for problems to be solved ... anywho, I digress ...

The real thing I am wondering is the best practice for setting up IP printers. I work out of a remote office (I am in Southwest Florida, the iSeries is in Rochester, NY) and all of our printers are IP printers.

What is the "best practice" for setting up printers? Do you create a device description as a *VRT or *LAN or ??? Or do you not need a device description at all? Almost all of our printers are relatively new HP printers (within the last 3 years) but there are still a couple older hold-overs (HP 4Si & Laserjet 4). Is there a downfall to having IP printers (i.e. do you lose features by a printer being IP)?

Any help would be greatly appreciated Also, if anyone has any useful sites for newbies I would appreciate those.

Thanks In Advance,


Matt Laski
Netadmin, Pulsafeeder Inc.

 

[os400]

This info is from Brad Stone's site:

http://www.bvstools.com/faq.html

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The number of copies option doesn't work on my remote output queue. How do I fix this?

To fix this problem you need to do the following:

End the writer associated with the remote output queue.
Use the command CHGOUTQ and enter XAIX XAUTOQ on the Destinations Option (DSTOPT) parameter.
Restart the writer.

How do I create a remote output queue?

To create a remote output queue, use the following command. Be sure to replace your values in the appropriate parameters:

CRTOUTQ OUTQ(outqueue_name) RMTSYS(*INTNETADR) RMTPRTQ(*NONE) CNNTYPE(*IP) DESTTYPE(*OTHER) MFRTYPMDL(model_from_list) WSCST(wscst or *NONE) INTNETADR('ip_address') DESTOPT('XAIX XAUTOQ') SEPPAGE(*NO) TEXT('Out Queue Description')

How do I create a remote printer device?

To create a remote output queue, use the following example. The example below was used to set up an HP4si. Be sure to replace your values in the appropriate parameters:

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(printer_name) DEVCLS(*LAN) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) LANATTACH(*IP) PORT(9100) ATTACH(*DIRECT) ONLINE(*YES) FONT(11 *NONE) FORMFEED(*AUTOCUT) SEPDRAWER(*FILE) PRTERRMSG(*INQ) MSGQ(*LIBL/QSYSOPR) ACTTMR(170) INACTTMR(*SEC15) LINESPEED(19200) WORDLEN(8) PARITY(*NONE) STOPBITS(1) TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*HP4) PPRSRC1(*LETTER) PPRSRC2(*LETTER) ENVELOPE(*NUMBER10) ASCII899(*NO) IMGCFG(*NONE) CHRID(*SYSVAL) RMTLOCNAME(IP_Adress) SYSDRVPGM(*HPPJLDRV)


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Also, click on the FAQ link for this forum, click AS/400 Knowledge base link, then click the Printers link. There you'll find a lot of info pertaining to specific printer models and what their values should be in the above configurations.

 

[os400]

If you're looking for sort of tutorial/primer on the AS/400, go here:

http://www.iseriesnetwork.com/resources/starterkit/toc.htm?

You'll need to signup to access most of the site.


HTH