How to migrate settings from Twinax 6400 Connect dot matrix printer to an ethernet dot matrix printer?
Hi All,
My organization currently has an IBM Twinax 6400 Connect dot matrix printer that we exclusively use. We just migrated our other dot matrix printer up to the office which is ethernet driven. We are having a hard time determining how we can easily configure the new ethernet printer to the same configuration on the current twinax one. We are running into font size issues with some of the reports we run. Does anyone know how one can smoothly make this transition so we can continue testing all of our reports?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
-Anthony
My organization currently has an IBM Twinax 6400 Connect dot matrix printer that we exclusively use. We just migrated our other dot matrix printer up to the office which is ethernet driven. We are having a hard time determining how we can easily configure the new ethernet printer to the same configuration on the current twinax one. We are running into font size issues with some of the reports we run. Does anyone know how one can smoothly make this transition so we can continue testing all of our reports?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
-Anthony
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Gary, thanks for your post back. There is one guy in my department who is looking at the issue and got it semi resolved, we are now just down to one report that doesn't produce correctly. How can I determine the fonts that are installed on the one twinax printer and the ones installed on the new ethernet one?
-Anthony
-Anthony
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Although Gary offered great suggestions, it turned out to be a license required to fix the problem. Not an actual troubleshooting issue.
1) What is the type and model of the new printer?
2) Can you please provide AS/400 device/outq descriptions for each?
3) Can you provide scanned image of the "good" and "bad" one,
4) Spooled file attributes from one of the problem spooled files,
5) Attributes (DSPFD) of the PRTF object used by the problem report programs,
6) If the report program uses an externally-described PRTF, then the DDS for one of the problem reports would be handy, too.
If you can't get it all, get what you can. If you need help figuring out how to get an item, post back and I can provide more detailed instructions.
Could be a configuration issue on the AS/400 or the printer itself.
New printer might not have the same fonts installed, or may just have different capabilities that cause it to render the output differently.