setting up a canon imagerunner 5000 to print preformatted PCL

[denalibird]

We are trying to send pre-formatted PCL code to a canon imagerunner 5000 from aix. We have a Wallace script that meerges the text with the PCL codes using Jetform/PrintMerge. Has anyone successfully done this before? and if so how did you define the print queue?

I have tried many, many options... but I have not found a successful combination yet. Maybe there's a trick I don't know..... So far the printer just strips the PCL and just prints the text.

 

[jwtesch]

If you create a PCL printer with one of the HP or Lexmark virtual printers you should be able to do this. First of all you want to set to passthrough mode. This can be done with qprt -dp or by changing the virtual printer setting to passthrough from smit or earlier with lsvirprt set d=p. Next with lsvirprt set ct=\33&k2G This will tell the printer to add the form feeds. Using d=p will tell the virtual printer not to mess with the code. Then you just fix the rest of the ci based parameters so you get the right tray and you should be set.