Can PSM control PostScript printers?

ITEM: RTA000091302

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ABSTRACT:     Can PSM control PostScript printers?                              
SEARCH ARG:   psm postscript                                                    
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Can the Printing Systems Manager (PSM) manage, redirect,                        
control PostScript printers like Apple Laserwriter NTX?                         
Client wants to direct output from S/390 to LAN attached Apple                  
Laserwriter printers that are Postscript only.  Any other means to              
control PostScript only printers?                                               
A:                                                                              
PSM can control any printer that can be attached to AIX either                  
using the native AIX print support, i.e., ASCII, HP PCL, Postscript,           
or using PSF for AIX (IPDS printers or HP PCL).                                 
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Just to clarify, what they want to do is to print S/390 EBCDIC line data        
to the LAN attached Apple Laserwriter NTXs under control of PSM.                
The Apples are Postscript only.  Does native AIX print support translate        
the EBCDIC files into Postscript?                                               
A:                                                                              
PSM itself will not perform the translation or transform for you, but if        
you have an AIX-driven Apple Laserwriter NTX controlled by PSM, then PSM        
will accommodate this connection through the use of the LPR Gateway to          
route output from MVS using TCP/IP LPR to that printer or other printers        
controlled by PSM.  (It is an accepted requirement for a future release         
of PSM to support work from the MVS Download feature of PSF/MVS V2.2.)          
                                                                                
Note that the host EBCDIC file should not include any carriage controls        
or TRCs; if it does, they will be treated as data.                              
                                                                                
You asked about the EBCDIC-to-ASCII translation. That is taken care of          
by the TCP/IP LPR application on MVS that you use to print the file.            
That translation takes place by default; if for some reason you did not         
want the translation to take place, then you would add the binary flag          
on the MVS LPR command.                                                         
                                                                                
The next piece is getting the now-ASCII flat file into PostScript               
format. Here are a couple of the choices available today:                       
                                                                                
  1) If the file you want to print is to print in landscape mode,               
     rotated 90 degrees, then on the MVS LPR command, you can specify           
     the LANDSCAPE command to convert it into PostScript, rotate it, and        
     print it. (See SC31-7136, MVS TCP/IP User's Guide; see also APAR          
     PN73895, and ASKQ items RTA000066725 and RTA000032645.)                    
                                                                                
  2) Alternatively, it is possible to set up the AIX queue on the               
     RS/6000 to invoke the enscript command to wrap the now-ASCII file          
     in PostScript wrappers and send it to the Laserwriter.                     
                                                                                
I hope that helps.                                                              
                                                                                
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:                                                  
AIX PSM PALLADIUM POSTSCRIPT MVS DOWNLOAD EBCDIC ASCII                          
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                                
                                                                               



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Dated: 02/1996 Category: XPSF6000

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