Posted: 10 years 8 months 13 days 15 hours 13 minutes ago
I've used it; it worked on some printers, but not all. However, most of our printers were either HP or Canon; don't think we ever had any Ricoh in the mix. Have you verified the output is what you want using the AFP Viewer, or maybe a different printer?
Posted: 10 years 8 months 13 days 14 hours 52 minutes ago
Where can I find the AFP viewer and how do I use it to look at the spooled file? I guess I'm not understanding wat you're asking. Is my sample code similar to what you were using?
Posted: 10 years 8 months 13 days 10 hours 34 minutes ago
The AFP Viewer is a plugin for IBM i Access for Windows.
Yes, your code is similar. You might want to try one of the predefined values instead of a number for shading, like (*SHADE *MEDIUM), just to see if it makes a difference. But my experience was that any given printer either did shading, or it didn't, regardless of the parameters.
Been awhile since I configured one of these, but I have a nagging feeling you may also want to review the image configuration on the printer or writer definition.
Posted: 10 years 8 months 13 days 10 hours 8 minutes ago
Selecting the proper MFRTYPMDL on the OUTQ de!--script--ion. There is one for Ricoh.
Posted: 10 years 8 months 12 days 17 hours 54 minutes ago
Thanks for the help guys. The writer device is set up as a Ricoh MP5000. The actual copier is a Ricoh Aficio MP4002. It's an *SCS printer. Should it be *IPDS? It does print boxes and images so maybe that set up is OK. There doesnt seem to be a Ricoh MFRTYPMDL specific for the copier model so I dont know if changing it to something "similar" will affect it. I also heard that we need the IBM Infoprint or some similar pkg on the IBM i to do this.
This shouldnt be so difficult. I'm going to look into it a little more and if no success, then I'm moving on.
Posted: 10 years 8 months 12 days 14 hours 59 minutes ago
Edited: Wed, 07 Aug, 2013 at 10:03:54 (3908 days ago)
There is none now, nor has there ever been substantial money in the IBM i Print budgets....
The Ricoh driver is probably there. Check to see which Ricoh driver your physical device supports.
For example, I have an HP LaserJet m400 and had to specify *HP5SI as the printer model. Also YES you probably need IPDS or more likely *AFPDS or *AFPDSLINE
FYI, that ID is grouped with the Ricoh ID in the IBM "printer driver" matrix for IBM i.
Your specific copier is listed and supported. On the OUTQ de!--script--ion, try:
MFRTYPMDL(*RICOHMP5000 )
Here is a link to the page on IBM.com where you would find stuff for the Ricoh models.