Considerations and limitations of the 3800 Line-Mode Conversion function

PSF cannot process jobs that use COPYMODs. If MODIFY is specified in the JCL for a job, and that job is identified in Exit 4/14 for 3800 Line-Mode Conversion processing, PSF issues an error message and , in deferred-printing mode, requests that the system hold the job. If the same job is not identified in Exit 4/14, it would print as a normal AFP job; the MODIFY parameter is ignored. Jobs for which the MODIFY parameter is specified must be converted to AFP jobs manually.

PSF does not convert 3800 character sets and GRAPHMODs. Like-named fonts must be available as AFP bounded-box fonts in the PSF resource library. PSF comes with AFP versions of all the character sets that are supplied with the 3800 printer. For any nonstandard character sets used in line-mode print jobs, equivalent AFP fonts must be created or substituted.

You need to also examine jobs that use a special post-processing routine and character set to create the 3800 version of rotated print. Although you might be able to convert the rotated character set for the AFP printer, removing the rotate post-processing step and using standard AFP fonts and AFP capabilities to rotate the job is easier.

You can use the 3800 Line-Mode Conversion only to print 3800 line mode jobs on 240-pel printers.

The 3800 Line-Mode Conversion assumes that the printer has only one input bin and uses paper only from the first input bin identified by the printer.

You can print 3800 line-mode jobs on cut-sheet AFP printers (such as the InfoPrint 60 printer) only if the print jobs fit on the paper that these cut-sheet printers handle. Although 3800 jobs that print on narrow paper easily fit on cut-sheet paper, 3800 jobs that are designed for wide paper probably do not fit. PSF does not rotate 3800 jobs on cut-sheet printers to try to make them fit the paper.

Support is provided to allow migration from non-IBM printers that are similar in operation to the 3800 printer, but are capable of printing print from perforation to perforation (no required half-inch margins on the top and bottom of the page). If the FCB contains a special X'0B' byte in the first byte of the line space/channel code descriptors, it is a nonstandard FCB (not created through the IEBIMAGE utility). In this case, PSF counts the top and bottom half-inch margins as a printable area when it compares expected and actual loaded paper size. PSF also always prints perf-to-perf when this FCB is used, regardless of the setting of XTP4YOFF. However, if character ascenders or descenders fall outside of the printable area, they are not printed.