Creating a Printer Device

[CaptainRon]

We have an Epson DFX-9000 with printer port. This works great for a device that has twinax. However we are going to a new 400 that does not support such a thing. So I have an HP JetDirect 500X that I have put in its place. I got it to work with a remote outq. My question is can I create a dummy actual device name to point to this outq so the user can just type in PRT01 ? and not have to type it in the outq?
Or can this be created as a device instead of remote outq?

Thanks

[chris_hird]

Re: Creating a Printer Device

If it a printer with a LAN port add as a network printer? Plenty of info around about adding a network printer. If its not then maybe add it as a shared printer via access client solutions?

Chris...

[Scott Klement]

Re: Creating a Printer Device

I'm with Chris on this one.. set it up as a LAN printer (using SNMP, if possible, PJL otherwise). Works much nicer than a remote output queue.

Here's an example setup (I do not know if these are exactly right for your printer)

CRTDEVPRT DEVD(PRT01) TYPE(3812) MODEL(1) 
          DEVCLS(*LAN) LANATTACH(*IP) SYSDRVPGM(*IBMSNMPDRV)
          RMTLOCNAME('192.168.0.1')  PORT(9100)
          ONLINE(*YES) MSGQ(*LIBL/DSP01) 
          TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(*EPDFX8000)
          TEXT('The Big Epson in Accounting')

[EmmanuelW1]

Re: Creating a Printer Device

This site provides information on the correct settings for your printer (and many others):

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019605

Cheers,

Emmanuel