User`s guide

AXIS 570/670 User’s Guide AS/400 IPDS over PPR/PPD Printing 13
AS/400 IPDS over PPR/PPD Printing
Note:
Before you begin:
Configuring the AXIS 570e/670e
Follow the instructions below to configure your AXIS 570e/670e using a standard Web browser:
1. Start a Web browser, e.g. Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator.
2. Enter the IP address or the host name of the AXIS 570e/670e in the location field and press the
Enter key on your keyboard. The internal Web pages of the AXIS 570e/670e appear. You may
be asked to enter a user name and a password. The default values are root and pass.
3. Click the Configuration button.
4. Select TCP/IP from the header.
5. The Reverse Telnet parameters PR1, PR2 and PR3 are by default setup for IPDS data streams,
emulating an IBM 4028 printer model 1 on the port numbers 5001, 5002 and 5003
respectively. If you need to change a port number, enter a new number in the text field and
click the Submit TCP/IP settings button. Otherwise you do not have to do anything.
6. Select IBM IPDS Configuration settings from the header.
7. Select your preferred system language from the IPDS System Language drop-down list.
8. Click the Submit IBM IPDS Configuration settings button.
9. Select IBM IPDS PRINTER DRIVER from the header.
10. Select the appropriate page properties and click the Submit IBM IPDS PRINTER DRIVER
settings button.
Configuring the AS/400 Host System
When configuring the AS/400 host system you must:
• create a PSF configuration
• create a printer device description
IPDS is only supported by the AXIS 570e and the AXIS 670e print servers.
Make sure that the AS/400 host is running OS/400 V3R6 or higher with TCP/IP support installed and configured.
Make sure that the latest PTFs are installed. Information about which PTFs to use can be obtained from
http://as400service.rochester.ibm.com/as4sde/nas4apar.nsf/nas4aparhome
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