Requirements

The requirements are:

• The printer must support the direct sockets printing protocol.
• The printer must support these PJL commands as described in HP documentation:
  • USTATUS DEVICE
  • USTATUS JOB
  • USTATUS PAGE

  If the printer does not support these PJL commands, IP PrintWay™ extended mode writes a warning or error message to the common message log.

• Documents must not already contain a PJL JOB command. If a document contains a PJL JOB command, IP PrintWay extended mode writes an error message to the common message log (AOP3859E) and does not process the print job.

Tips:

• To determine whether a printer supports PJL, contact the printer manufacturer. However, some printers that support PJL do not support PJL commands as described in HP documentation. To determine whether a printer supports PJL, select a PJL option in the printer definition and submit a print job. Look in the Infoprint Server common message log for one of these messages:

  AOP3858E The printer requires intervention or does not support PJL.
  AOP3856E The printer does not support the PJL USTATUS JOB command.
  AOP3854W The printer does not support the PJL USTATUS PAGE command.
  AOP3855W The printer does not support the PJL USTATUS DEVICE command.
  AOP3857W The printer does not return information after each page prints.

  You can use Infoprint Central to look for these messages in the log for the Infoprint Server print job.

  See also "Limitations" for a list of printers that do not supported the PJL commands.

• If you use an AFP to PCL or the AFP to PostScript transform, customize the transform to not add PJL commands. For information, see the documentation for the transform.
• For information about how to change the protocol of an existing printer definition to the direct sockets protocol, see Changing the type of a printer definition or the IP PrintWay protocol type.