[wplug] printing to network printer
Patrick Wagstrom
pwagstro at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Jan 19 11:54:46 EST 2007
> A document I found at IBM seems to indicate that the z65n uses
> something called GDI for printing and doesn't accept the LPR,
> jetdirect, or other common protocols.
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas1023b5ee0895389a7862569c10078d695
>
>
> "Host-Based Printing", "Proprietary (GDI)" and "Windows GDI" are
> generic terms that can refer to any Host-based or Windows-only
> printer, which use a proprietary printer data stream rather than an
> industry-standard printer data stream such as IBM Proprinter Data
> Stream (PPDS), Epson ESC/P2, HP Printer Control Language (PCL), or
> Adobe PostScript (PS). These printers support printing from Windows,
> and possibly from Macintosh or Linux, but will not print directly from
> i5/OS, OS/400, Unix or any other non-PC-based Operating System -- even
> if the printers can be network-attached. Since these printers require
> a proprietary printer data stream, they will not work with Host Print
> Transform (HPT) or a PC5250 Printer Definition Table (PDT) File.
Actually, GDI refers to the language of the datastream, not the protocol
used to get data to the printer itself. GDI printers can still talk
over TCP/IP.
--Patrick
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