Cutting off 3-4 Charecters on Print.

[kerleyp(you_must_remove_this)]

Hi All,

I want to say thank you for all then help I have been getting recently.
Its a true testament to the purpose of these newsgroups.

I'm still working on some issues but have made huge strides in recent
days. We are trying to print our invoices on the IP printers. But they
seem to cut off the last 3-4 charecters. all things end with the dollar
value we loose changes.

ie.

199. (TCP/IP) vs.
199.00- (for 199.00 returned)

The form CPI is set at 16.7 but the CPICOR of the printer is 15. When
we put in 16.7 it gives us an error.

Does anyone have anymore enlightenment for me.

Thanks,
Pat

[Richard]

That could be a lot of things, but when you display the spool file online,
before you print, do the missing characters show up? That will at least
tell you if it's a printer issue or AS/400 program issue. My guess would
be the width of print file isn't enough... in which case you either need
to use a different one or CHGPRTF, if it is unique to the program.

[emc...@yahoo.com]

Our invoice form is 85 characters wide, when we started using an IP
laser printer everything past position 80 got chopped.

We had to change the print program to use positions 1 thru 80.

[kerleyp(you_must_remove_this)]

Richard wrote:

The entire document there is in the spool file.

I inquired about doing the chgprtf

but the problem there is that all of your twinax printers do not have
this problem...they print it out just fine...

????

[kerleyp(you_must_remove_this)]

emc...@yahoo.com wrote:

Is there anyway to compress it because we have a mix of twinax and IP
Printers?

[fred langner]

YOU SHOULD LOOK AT http://www-912.ibm.com/ SEARCH TECHNICAL DATABASE and
then
software knowledge base
search for CPI FONT. you will find lots of examples to change Font withe
etc...
a little fiddling, but I always got it working...on Laser printers you can
even change
the print a little more up or a little to the left side and so on...
depends on the printer you have..
I have done it for a 85 wide form using a smaller font
remember, using an 8" wide paper you can print 80 chars using 10 cpi
on normal impact printers there will be no problem, you can adjust the paper
so that it fits, on lasers you have som left and right margin settings, so
perhaps some
chars get lost..

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[jb]

I never find laser printers really print at x cpi, even if its close its out
by quite an amount. They always seem to know better & randomly change cpi &
page rotation. I just find trying many different combinations & sticking
with one which works OK so the 198 width normally have room for say 205 etc.

Jonathan

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Jonathan.
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[Rodney Johnson]

You have encountered the old no print border vs. print border issue that has
been in existance since V2R3 with introduction of Host Print Transform.

This was first seen on 3812 printers. If twinax attached and SCS mode, you
could print from edge of the paper to edge of paper. However, in ASCII mode,
you could not print edge to edge. There was an area designated as a no print
border. Usually this is most commonly hit when you switch from a twin-ax (no
HPT) connection to *IP attach.

You need to adjust your printer files to accomodate. As to getting the twin-ax
attached printers to match (exactly) the IP attached printers, that is not easy
if not impossible. Your best bet is to get all printers using the same paths.
So for twin-ax attached printers, you could switch to use Host Print Transform.
This would put you on "equal" ground. The problem here is, it is unknown what
printers you have attached via twin-ax, and whether you have workstation
controllers doing "special things" for you.

It could take many days of research (depending upon diversity of your hardware)
determining whether it is even possible to have the printed output look the same
no matter which printer you printed it on.

I'd recommend going to all IP if possible, and make sure you have printers with
SNMP capabilities as defined in the iSeries Software Knowledge DB. This would
provide you with the best IP printing capabilities without buying PSF/400.

Avoid remote writer attachment if you can, unless you are willing to live with
the limitations: no page range support (unless you use TSPRWPR exit example),
no job accounting, no system separator page support (only what LPR/LPD protocol
provides), connectivity timeout issues, etc.

"kerleyp(you_must_remove_this)" wrote:

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Rodney A Johnson
Technical Team Lead for AS/400 Spool
Dept GJC
IBM Rochester, Minnesota

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[kerleyp(you_must_remove_this)]

Thank you Rodney,

Now I have to convince them to go All IP or change the forms to support
the IP Printers. Which went over like a ton of led bricks with the
AS400 lady.

Pat