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AS/400 IBM Network Station: Techniques for Deployment in a WAN
stream into another. If you are using IBM Network Station applications that
generate PostScript data, but you only have a PCL type printer attached to
your IBM Network Station, the print request can be sent to the AS/400
system, transformed from PostScript to PCL, and routed back to the IBM
Network Station attached PCL printer.
You can configure printers for your IBM Network Stations with the IBM
Network Station Manager program unless the data stream generated by the
Network Station application does not match a datastream that your printer
understands. Table 1 describes which data streams the common IBM
Network Station applications produce. If your Network Station application
does not produce a datastream that your printer understands, you must send
the print job to an AS/400 server to
transformed it into the datastream of your
choice.
Table 1. Applications and Printer Data Streams
For example, in the previous release, you needed a Postscript capable printer
directly attached to your IBM Network Station if you wanted to print from your
NC Navigator browser session. In Release 3, you can continue to print to your
local Postscript printer. Now, you can also route non-Postscript output through
the AS/400 system (V4R2 required) where it is transformed to Postscript and
then routed back to your locally attached Postscript printer. In addition,
assuming the administrator has enabled access to the printer, you can
choose to send the non-Postscript output to a network printer located on your
network.
For comprehensive information on configuring and utilizing printers with your
IBM Network Stations, refer to the manual,
IBM Network Station Manager
Installation and Use,
SC41-0664 and the redbook, IBM Network Station
Printing Guide
, SG24-5212. Both of these technical publications can be
viewed online at the Web site at: as400service.ibm.com
Application Data streams
5250 Emulator Postscript, ASCII, PCL
3270 Emulator Postscript, ASCII, PCL
VTxxx Emulator ASCII
NC Navigator browser Postscript
Java Applications Postscript
Lotus eSuite Workplace Postscript