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09431 - Printing using PCL Drivers or Postscript - What are others doing?
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Printing using PCL Drivers or Postscript - What are others doing?
We are running SAP 4.6C on V5R1. All printers are on the network,none are twinax. Each printer I have is defined to the AS400 and has
a remote writer started for it. Each printer is then defined in SAP,
most of the device types used are HPLJ4, HPLJ5 or HPLJ5SI. I also
have a LOCL printer defined which uses device type SAPFWIN, this is
used to print back to the users PC's (saplpd) and print to a printer
defined on the PC.
Our users like the sapfwin printer since it has better fonts and
shading. The printers defined to the AS400 using the HP device types
in SAP don't print as nice. Personally, I want to change to not use
the sapfwin printer since it is a pain to keep running, we seem to
have alot of issues where the saplpd program doesn't work and a re-
boot is required, plus using the frontend PC to perform a print route
doesn't seem right to me.
I've played around with using printers defined with device type POST2
(postscript). This appears to work fairly good, similar to the
fonts/formatting which the sapfwin provides but it is routed via the
AS400 queues.
I've got a few questions for any/all of you:
1. How are your printers set up? Are you using PCL drivers,
Postscript or Sapfwin?
2. If using Postscript, How do you create new formats for differnet
page sizes? I've created several custom formats for different page
sizes. With the PCL drivers you define the format with the columns
and lines but you also need to edit the initialization escape
sequence. I'm not a postscript guru but doesn't Postscript have the
page formatting embedded in the data as opposed to escape sequences?
If so, does SAP use the lines and columns defined in the format to
set the proper controls within the data file?
I'd appreciate any feedback on any of your print setups/problems.
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