Configuring Lexlink printers

To set up Lexlink printers, follow these steps.

1. Ensure that you understand the following requirements and restrictions:
   • All ASCII Lexlink protocol LAN-attached printers must be attached to the IBM® 4033 LAN adapter device or the MarkNet XLe device, or the printer must have a MarkNet or MarkNet XL Internal Network Adapter (INA) card.
   • Only spooled files with device type attributes of *SCS, *USERASCII, or *AFPDS are supported.
   • Direct printing (SPOOL parameter value = *NO on the CRTPRTF, CHGPRTF, and OVRPRTF commands) is not allowed to ASCII Lexlink protocol LAN-attached printers.
   • Printer sharing through the allow direct print (ALWDRTPRT) parameter on the STRPRTWTR command is not supported. Printer sharing means having the SPOOL parameter value = *NO on the CRTPRTF command and the ALWDRTPRT parameter value = *YES on the STRPRTWTR command.
   • Only Token Ring or Ethernet communications lines (values in the Switched Line List (SWTLINLST) parameter of the printer device description) are supported.
   • Error recovery will not be detailed.
   • Spooled files of type other than *SCS, *USERASCII, or *AFPDS that reach an output queue associated with a ASCII Lexlink protocol LAN-attached printer are held. A message indicating the spooled file is held is sent to the message queue specified on the STRPRTWTR command.
2. Use the Create Device Desc (Printer) (CRTDEVPRT) CL command to create a printer device description. From a character-based interface, type CRTDEVPRT.
3. On the Create Device Description (Printer) Display, press F9 to display all parameters.
4. Specify the following values:

   Parameter	Value
   Device description (DEVD)	The name of your device description. For example, mylexprt.
   Device class (DEVCLS)	This must be set to *LAN.
   Device type (TYPE)	This must be set to 3812.
   Device model (MODEL)	This must be set to 1.
   LAN attachment (LANATTACH)	This must be set to *LEXLINK.
   LAN remote adapter address (ADPTADR)	Set to the MAC address of the LAN adapter, MarkNet device or MarkNet INA. The MAC address is typically specified on the packaging or on a label on the device.
   Adapter type (ADPTTYPE)	Set to *INTERNAL for an internal MarkNet card. Set to *EXTERNAL for an external MarkNet device.
   Port number (PORT)	The port number that the external device is expecting to receive data. For the MarkNet XLe, use the following values: 0 for serial port 1 for parallel port 1 2 for parallel port 2
   Font (FONT)	This is typically set to 011, which is the default 10 CPI font.
   Form feed (FORMFEED)	Set to *AUTOCUT, if printing to a cut sheet printer. Set to *CONT, if printing to a continuous forms printer.
   Manufacturer type and model (MFRTYPMDL)	This value indicates the type of ASCII printer and is used by the host print transform when converting spooled files. For recommendations on the value to use for some popular printers, see the IBM Software Knowledge Base document Information on Printers from Various Manufacturers (search for the document title at www.ibm.com/support/).

   All other values can be left as the default value.
5. Press Enter.
6. Make the printer available.
7. Start the printer writer.