Printing data without formatting (basic mode)

If you run IP PrintWay™ basic mode and your batch applications create output that contains ASCII text data, PCL data, PDF data, or AFP data, you must request in the printer definition that IP PrintWay basic mode transmit the data sets to the printer or email destination without formatting the data. To do this, select the IP PrintWay none formatting option in the printer definition.

In some situations, even though IP PrintWay basic mode does not format the data, it might be necessary to translate the data stream to either ASCII or EBCDIC, depending on the requirements of the destination. In this situation, select the Translate only formatting option in the printer definition.

Select the IP PrintWay basic mode none formatting option when your batch applications create:

• ASCII text, PCL, or PDF data to be printed on an ASCII printer
• AFP, PCL, or PDF data to be sent to an email destination
• PCL data to be printed on a VTAM-controlled PCL printer

Select the IP PrintWay basic mode Translate only formatting option when your batch applications create:

• ASCII text data to be mailed to an email destination

In these situations, IP PrintWay can automatically determine that it should transmit the data stream unchanged to the printer. Therefore, in these cases, it ignores the IP PrintWay formatting option selected in the printer definition and automatically processes data sets as if the none formatting option were selected:

• The data stream contains a PostScript header.
• Print Interface converted the data stream to a format suitable for its destination.
• The Remote PSF option is selected on the LPR Protocol panel.
• NetSpool converted the data stream to a PCL data stream (the Convert to PCL option is selected on the NetSpool Options panel).
• The data is to be sent to a VTAM-controlled printer as transparent data (the Send as transparent field is selected on the VTAM® Protocol panel).