PAGE RANGE PRINTING

[Guest.Visitor]

Hi, I have a lot of printers set up as remote output q's on our 400. I know page range printing doesn't work - does anyone know of any software available to help get round this?? TIA Carl PS We are on 4.4 Latest cum.

[B.Myrick]

Carl, I used to have this problem with another employer. If I wanted page 20 out of 500, it still printed from 1 to 500. They too, were set up as remote devices. Here, our attached printers set up as *lan for device type. This allows us to use the pagerange feature without any problems. Here is our set up for our OFFICE printer. It is an HP Laserjet-4 st. We also have other printer types set up like this also. Device description . . . . . . . . : OFFICE Option . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *BASIC Category of device . . . . . . . . : *PRT Device class . . . . . . . . . . . : *LAN Device type . . . . . . . . . . . : 3812 Device model . . . . . . . . . . . : 1 LAN attachment . . . . . . . . . . : *IP Port number . . . . . . . . . . . : 9100 Physical attachment . . . . . . . : *DIRECT Online at IPL . . . . . . . . . . : *YES Font: Identifier . . . . . . . . . . . : 11 Point size . . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE Form feed . . . . . . . . . . . . : *AUTOCUT Separator drawer . . . . . . . . . : *FILE Separator program . . . . . . . . : *NONE Printer error message . . . . . . : *INQ Message queue . . . . . . . . . . : *CTLD Current message queue . . . . . . : QSYSOPR Library . . . . . . . . . . . . : QSYS Activation timer . . . . . . . . . : 170 Inactivity timer . . . . . . . . . : *SEC15 Line speed . . . . . . . . . . . . : 19200 Word length . . . . . . . . . . . : 8 Type of parity . . . . . . . . . . : *NONE Stop bits . . . . . . . . . . . . : 1 Host print transform . . . . . . . : *YES Manufacturer type and model . . . : *HP4 Paper source 1 . . . . . . . . . . : *LETTER Paper source 2 . . . . . . . . . . : *LETTER Envelope source . . . . . . . . . : *NUMBER10 ASCII code page 899 support . . . : *NO Image configuration . . . . . . . : *NONE Character identifier . . . . . . . : *SYSVAL Remote location: Name or address . . . . . . . . : 10.1.25.6 -bret

[GlenKerner]

My first thought is Robot. It has a report distribution component that would do what you want (I believe) but it is an extremely expensive solution. On the other hand I have printed to a printer directly connected to my PC (using Printer emulation) and been able to print only the page range. I haven't tried it recently on just a remote printer but who knows it might actually work now. What you might be able to do is set up a printer emulation to the printer you want to print. Sent the spool file to the output queue that is created (be sure to have it save(*yes) just in case it doesn't work) and have the page range set. A printer emulation session can be created for any printer that can be seen on the lan or direct connected to your pc.

[Guest.Visitor]

Thanks Guys, I don't have problems with lasers - as these are set as LAN printers. It is dot matrix types - Epson & IBM.