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Clwaid
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 Favorite printer in AS 400 environment
AS 400, AS/400 printers
Just curious if anyone has a fav printer in the AS-400 world.  The HP4200 / 4250 has worked well for us and unfortunately can no longer buy new. Suggestions?

 



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AS-400 Iseries Version 5 release 4
ASKED: January 18, 2012  3:55 PM
UPDATED: February 28, 2012  11:29 AM
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 Approved Answer - Chosen by Clwaid (Question Asker)

We've had some issues with the HP 4015n, largely taken care of by setting the PRTERRMSG parameter to *INFO.

Though I'd be loathe to let them know, I like the Xerox printers as a rule. The Xerox-supplied workstation customisation objects are great.

ANSWERED:  Jan 19, 2012  3:09 PM (GMT)  by Clwaid
 
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We’ve been using HP4015N for a “throw it out there and it works” printer.

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Rajasekhar15
 1,350 pts.
 

Thanks for the replies. HP’s are all we have used. Curious about the Xerox any suggestions on a model. Features we need include duplex and decent speed (40 pages or better would be good) multi tray capability as well. business use so RAM not really an issue

Clwaid
 25 pts.
 

Could one of you that are using HP printers without IPDS card but still printing advanced printing with overlays, barcodes, *AFPDS, etc, please post a device description and customized object. I have several network printers(HP and 1 Brother) that I would like to route some reports that require an IPDS card to.

Bigmac46
 1,000 pts.
 

BigMac46,

This is for an hp LaserJet 4250 used to print forms with barcodes & variable fonts:

                   Display Device Description                       Page     1
5761SS1 V6R1M0  080215                        [System]   02/01/12  15:36:00 CST
 Device description . . . . . . . . :   DEVD        [Printer]
 Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   OPTION      *ALL
 Category of device . . . . . . . . :               *PRT
 Device class . . . . . . . . . . . :   DEVCLS      *LAN
 Device type  . . . . . . . . . . . :   TYPE        3812
 Device model . . . . . . . . . . . :   MODEL       1
 LAN attachment . . . . . . . . . . :   LANATTACH   *IP
 Port number  . . . . . . . . . . . :   PORT        9100
 Physical attachment  . . . . . . . :   ATTACH      *DIRECT
 Online at IPL  . . . . . . . . . . :   ONLINE      *YES
 Font . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   FONT
   Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . :               011
   Point size . . . . . . . . . . . :               *NONE
 Form feed  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   FORMFEED    *AUTOCUT
 Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . :   SEPDRAWER   *FILE
 Separator program  . . . . . . . . :   SEPPGM      *NONE
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :
 Printer error message  . . . . . . :   PRTERRMSG   *INFO
 Message queue  . . . . . . . . . . :   MSGQ        *CTLD
 Current message queue  . . . . . . :               QSYSOPR
   Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . :                 QSYS
 Last activity date . . . . . . . . :               02/01/12
 Activation timer . . . . . . . . . :   ACTTMR      170
 Inactivity timer . . . . . . . . . :   INACTTMR    *SEC15
 Line speed . . . . . . . . . . . . :   LINESPEED   19200
 Word length  . . . . . . . . . . . :   WORDLEN     8
 Type of parity . . . . . . . . . . :   PARITY      *NONE
 Stop bits  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   STOPBITS    1
 Host print transform . . . . . . . :   TRANSFORM   *YES
 Manufacturer type and model  . . . :   MFRTYPMDL   *HP5SI
 Paper source 1 . . . . . . . . . . :   PPRSRC1     *LETTER
 Paper source 2 . . . . . . . . . . :   PPRSRC2     *LETTER
 Envelope source  . . . . . . . . . :   ENVELOPE    *NUMBER10
 ASCII code page 899 support  . . . :   ASCII899    *NO
 Image configuration  . . . . . . . :   IMGCFG      *NONE
 Character identifier . . . . . . . :   CHRID       *SYSVAL
 Remote location  . . . . . . . . . :   RMTLOCNAME
   Name or address  . . . . . . . . :               [IP address]
 Workstation customizing object . . :   WSCST       *NONE
 User-defined object  . . . . . . . :   USRDFNOBJ   *NONE
   Object type  . . . . . . . . . . :                 *NONE
 Data transform program . . . . . . :   USRDTATFM   *NONE
 System driver program  . . . . . . :   SYSDRVPGM   *HPPJLDRV
 Allocated to:
 Job name . . . . . . . . . . . . . :               [Printer]
   User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :                 QSPLJOB
   Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . :                 477768
 Published  . . . . . . . . . . . . :               *NO
 Publishing information . . . . . . :   PUBLISHINF
   Support duplex . . . . . . . . . :               *UNKNOWN
   Support color  . . . . . . . . . :               *UNKNOWN
   Pages per minute black . . . . . :               *UNKNOWN
   Pages per minute color . . . . . :               *UNKNOWN
   Location . . . . . . . . . . . . :               *BLANK
   Data streams supported . . . . . :               *UNKNOWN
 Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   TEXT        
 Active switched line . . . . . . . :               *NONE
 Switched line list . . . . . . . . :   SWTLINLST
 --------------------Switched lines---------------------
   (No switched lines attached)
 User-defined options . . . . . . . :   USRDFNOPT
 -----------------User-defined options------------------
              * * * * *   E N D   O F   L I S T I N G   * * * * *
Splat
 5,670 pts.
 

Clwaid, I’d suggest going to the Xerox site and looking at your options. We’ve got a variety of their printers & they all get a decent amount of use. The WorkCenter model line is pretty wideranging.

Splat
 5,670 pts.