PSF/AIX: Download OCR-B fonts to the 3160 printer

ITEM: RTA000148255



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Printer Systems (PRINT)                                                         
 PSF/AIX                                                                        
  PRINT XPSF6000                                                                
                                                                                
Hello,                                                                          
                                                                                
My customer wants to print OCR-B on his 3160 with PSF for AIX.                  
However the Postal services (PostBank) has problems with the                    
OCR-B chars produced with the (internal) font on the 3160                       
All the chars are too big.                                                      
                                                                                
I have searched the Print Administration (S544-3817-03) and                     
found on page 366 Using Global Resource Identifiers.                           
                                                                                
However it is not clear to me how I can instruct PSF for AIX to use             
the OCR-B fonts from the PSF for AIX server instead of using the                
resident fonts.                                                                 
                                                                                
Could you please enlighten me what the best/fastest way is the produce          
a correct OCR-B font on the 3160 printer?                                       
                                                                                
Perhaps a microcode update is also possible?                                    
                                                                                
A:                                                                              
You can either force PSF/AIX to download just the OCR-B raster font from        
the server, or to download all fonts in raster format.  If you prefer           
the latter, please see libraried item RTA000147116 for complete                 
instructions.                                                                  
                                                                                
If you want to download just the OCR-B raster font, first you need to           
identify which character set is being called by the print job.  A quick         
review of the /usr/lpp/psf/grd/charset.grd.sample file shows six                
possible OCR-B character sets: C0920BB0, C0L00BOA, C0L00BON, C0L00OAB,          
C0OCRB10, and CZ920B.  Once you identify which character set is being           
called in the job, you can edit the charset.grd.sample file and                 
replace the value in the second column (fgid) with a dash (-).  For             
example, if your job's OCR-B character set is C0920BB0, you would               
edit /usr/lpp/psf/grd/charset.sample.grd.  (You might make a backup             
copy first to be safe.)                                                         
                                                                                
You would see:                                                                  
                                                                                
  C0920BB0    306   969   144   240   -   # OCRB *fd*             243          
                                                                                
Change that to:                                                                 
                                                                                
  C0920BB0    -     969   144   240   -   # OCRB *fd*             243           
                                                                                
and save the file.                                                              
                                                                                
In order for these new mappings to take effect, this file must be               
renamed "charset.grd" and have minimum permissions of 444, owner of             
root, and group of printq. It can be placed into either the                     
/usr/lpp/psf/grd subdirectory or the /var/psf/                     
subdirectory.                                                                   
                                                                                
If charset.grd is installed in the subdirectory /var/psf/,         
only that printer is affected by the charset.grd file.                         
                                                                                
If the file is installed in the /usr/lpp/psf/grd subdirectory, *all*            
printers will use this file.                                                    
                                                                                
You will need to recycle PSF/AIX for the affected queues (psfctl -dtu           
) so that the printer profile is re-read and processed.            
                                                                                
I don't have information on 3160 microcode changes that might affect            
this, but if you wish me to pursue that path, please reopen this item           
with a note to that effect.  Meanwhile, give this a try and see if the          
raster font is acceptable.                                                      
                                                                                
Thanks for using WWQ&A.                                                         
                                                                                
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:                                                 
psf/6000 psf/aix psf aix raster download resident font force 3160 3130          
OCR charset fgid grid infoprint                                                 
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                               


WWQA: ITEM: RTA000148255 ITEM: RTA000148255
Dated: 01/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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