Douglas,
It's very commmon to have multiple 3000s access a common DTC based printer.
The trick will be getting access to it from the MD 3000 since the DTC
protocol is not "routable". This can be done with some configuration work
on your network. The other option would be to send the spoolfile from MD to
the CA 3000 and have it print it. This too can be done with some work. Do
you currently do any remote printing like that? Do you have any lpr/lpd
based utilities such as Espul or NBSpool?
Thanx,
Jonathan (Jon) M. Backus, MPE-CSM ~ President
Tech Group ~ 15 Catawba Place ~ Hagerstown, MD ~ 21742-6515
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Douglas Caviness
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 4:51 PM
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Subject: Printing over a WNA
Situation: Two 3000's, one in Maryland, one in California. I have set up
the system in MD to be able to print to a networked laser printer in CA,
but that is not what they want. They "need" to print from the MD system to
a "forms" printer in CA. This is, I suspect, an impact printer for multi-
part forms, connected to a DTC in the CA office, controlled by the CA
system. Are there any ways of having two MPE/iX machines send data to the
same DTC?
Has anyone tried printing forms to a network connected impact printer?
There are some on the market, but they are expensive. Would I have to have
new a printer driver? The control codes to position the print head vary
between manufacturers, and all we have ever used for forms are HP line
printers. I believe that when you set up a network printer on MPE/iX that
the type is straight ASCII, but could I use a different SYSGEN ID type than
HPTCPJD? I know I can specify different environment files, but that only
controls the overall setup of the printer, not how to do things like head
positioning and paper advancing.
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