Specifying color mapping tables

When you send output to a printer that supports the color mapping table resource, you can specify a color mapping table to map color translations to the printer. The full name of the color mapping table is coded in the COLORMAP parameter of the OUTPUT JCL statement (see COLORMAP).

If you do not code a COLORMAP parameter on your OUTPUT JCL statement, PSF uses the default parameter that your system programmer specified in the Printer Inventory or the PRINTDEV JCL statement. If no system default is specified and a color mapping table resource is not coded inline in the print data set, PSF uses the value M1RESET, which is a reset color mapping table resource that is provided internally with PSF. For information about the reset color mapping table resource, see InfoPrint Hi-Lite Color Application Design Reference (available from your IBM® marketing representative), or Mixed Object Document Content Architecture Reference, AFPC-0004.

//OUTPUT1 OUTPUT DEST=REMOTE1,FORMDEF=A10111,PAGEDEF=A06462,
//        COLORMAP=M1COLOR
//DD1   DD  SYSOUT=q,OUTPUT=(*.OUTPUT1)

Check with your system programmer to find out which DEST to use for sending print data sets to a printer that supports color mapping tables.

You can create your own color mapping table by using the Color Mapping Tool that is included with PSF (see Creating color mapping tables) or you can use an existing resource created by your system programmer. The color mapping table resource specified on the COLORMAP parameter must be stored in one of these places:

• In a PSF system object container library
• In a user library specified by the USERLIB parameter
• Inline in the print data set (except in XML data)