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IBM AS/400 Printing V A primer on AS/400 printing in today’s networked environment Configuration, performance, problem determination, enhancements In-depth education on AFP and ASCII printing Alain Badan Simon Hodkin Jacques Hofstetter Gerhard Kutschera Bill Shaffer Whit Smith ibm.com/redbooks International Technical Support Organization SG24-2160-01 IBM AS/400 Printing V October 2000 Take Note! Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in Appendix L, “Special notices” on page 407. Second Edition (October 2000) The document was created or updated on June 12, 2001. Comments may be addressed to: IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization Dept. JLU Building 107-2 3605 Highway 52N Rochester, Minnesota 55901-7829 When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a non-exclusive right to use or distribute the information in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1998, 2000. All rights reserved. Note to U.S Government Users - Documentation related to restricted rights - Use, duplication or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp. Contents Preface . xiii The team that wrote this redbook . xiii Comments welcome . xiv Chapter 1. Printing on the AS/400 system. .1 1.1 Output queues: Spooled files . .1 1.2 Data streams supported on the AS/400 system. .3 1.3 Printer writer . .6 1.3.1 Print writer. .8 1.3.2 Print Services Facility/400 . .9 1.3.3 Host print transform. .13 1.3.4 Image print transform . .14 1.4 AS/400 printer attachment methods . .15 1.4.1 Printers attached to AS/400 workstation controllers or IBM 5x94. .15 1.4.2 IPDS printers LAN-attached . .16 1.4.3 ASCII printers attached to displays . .17 1.4.4 ASCII printers attached to PCs . .18 1.4.5 ASCII printers LAN-attached . .19 1.4.6 Printers attached to PSF Direct . .20 1.4.7 Printers attached to PSF/2 DPF . .21 1.5 Remote system printing . .22 1.6 Printing SCS, IPDS, AFPDS, and USERASCII spooled files . .23 1.6.1 SCS spooled files . .23 1.6.2 IPDS spooled files. .24 1.6.3 AFPDS spooled files . .25 1.6.4 USERASCII spooled files . .25 1.6.5 USERASCII spooled files with image print transform. .26 1.7 Implementing a printing concept . .27 1.7.1 Print criticality . .27 1.7.2 Print output requirements . .27 1.7.3 Printer file device type. .27 1.7.4 Writer supporting printer file device type . .28 1.7.5 Printer requirements . .30 1.7.6 Types of printers . .30 1.7.7 Printer attachment methods . .32 1.7.8 What must be considered . .32 Chapter 2. Advanced Function Presentation. .35 2.1 Overview of AFP on the AS/400 system . .35 2.1.1 What AFP is . .35 2.1.2 AS/400 AFP model . .35 2.1.3 APU print model . .37 2.1.4 PFU print model . .39 2.1.5 Page and form definitions print model . .41 2.1.6 AFP toolbox print model . .42 2.2 AFP resources . .42 2.2.1 Creating AFP resources . .43 2.2.2 OEM products . .45 2.3 AFP Utilities/400 V4R2 enhancements . .45 2.3.1 View electronic form on PC (Overlay Utility) . .45 2.3.2 Print Format Utility ‘Omit Back Side Page Layout’ . .47 © Copyright IBM Corp. 2000 iii 2.3.3 Element repeat . 47 2.3.4 Form definition. 47 2.3.5 Tutorial . 48 2.3.6 Printer type . 48 2.3.7 Host outline font support . 48 2.4 Advanced Print Utility (APU) enhancements . 49 2.4.1 Duplex . 49 2.4.2 Multiple Text Mapping . 50 2.4.3 Outline font support . 52 2.4.4 Advanced Print Utility (APU) monitor enhancement . 52 2.4.5 Print engine . 66 Chapter 3. Enhancing your output . 67 3.1 How your print output could look . 68 3.2 Using Advanced Print Utility (APU) . 69 3.2.1 APU environment. 69 3.2.2 Setting up APU . 69 3.2.3 Creating the print definition . 72 3.2.4 Working with the print definition . 74 3.2.5 Testing the print definition . 79 3.2.6 Printing using the APU monitor . 80 3.3 Using the Page Printer Formatting Aid. 81 3.3.1 Creating a source physical file for form and page definitions . 82 3.3.2 Compiling the form and page definitions . 84 3.3.3 Printing with the form and page definitions. 86 3.3.4 Considerations. 88 3.4 APU versus PPFA . 88 Chapter 4. Fonts . 89 4.1 Where fonts are stored . 89 4.1.1 Printer-resident fonts . 89 4.1.2 Host-resident fonts. 90 4.2 How fonts are selected . 91 4.2.1 Characters per inch (CPI) . 92 4.3 Which fonts are available. 93 4.3.1 Fonts supplied at no charge. 93 4.3.2 240-pel fonts available at a charge . 94 4.3.3 300-pel fonts available at a charge . 95 4.4 How fonts are installed . 96 4.4.1 Making the fonts available . 97 4.5 Outline fonts . 99 4.5.1 Downloading host-resident outline fonts. 100 4.5.2 Why use an outline font . ..