How to perform 2up and duplex printing using CA Spool?

Products

• Spool

Issue/Introduction

Introduction:

The Advanced Laser Printer Interface borrows some concepts from AFP printing without using any real AFP resources.
You can assign a PAGEDEF, FORMDEF and CHARS values to the file and those names will be pulled and processed from the IMAGELIB DD statement.

Instructions:

The specific steps to setup this interface and perform 2up and duplex printing are:

• Define each printer with the NODE statement in the start-up parms. The device type must be XX-xxxxx in the NODE or DEFNODE statements of the CA Spool start-up parms. The xxxxx can be any characters. Use one device type for each combination of a printer model and a protocol converter model. If the device type is unknown to CA Spool, it must be defined using the DEFNODE statement. Use the following as an example: 

DEFNODE LASERX,XX-HPTCP,GROUP=1
NODE XXLS,LASERX,CLASS=ALL,
RELEASE=NOWORK,ACQUIRE=WORK,SEP=0,PURGE=NO,
TCPDRIV=PCL5ET,
TCPHOST=10.999.99.99,
SETUP=NO,TRANS=C037T19U,
RETAIN=1,LINECNT=0,INITFF=NO,ENDFF=NO

• Parameters USEREXIT=LINE or USEREXIT=PAGE must not be specified. If specified, they are not supported.
  USEREXIT=FILE and USEREXIT=ASESSION can be used to send data to the printers.
• Update the module XDEVTYPS, which is supplied in CAI.CBQ4OPTN. The module contains an entry for each device type.
• If anything was changed in the XDEVTYPS module, similar changes must be made to all the sample FORMDEFs, PAGEDEFs, and CHARS modules.
• Assemble and link the modules.
  Note: The job BQ4JXXLS in CAI.CBQ4JCL can be used for this. The data set into which the load-modules are linked can be either SYS1.IMAGELIB, or another load library, which is allocated on an IMAGELIB DD statement in the CA Spool start-up procedure.
• Startup or reinitialize CA Spool.
• Create a file in CA Spool, you can run the job XLASDEMO in CAI.CBQ4OPTN, that is at least two pages long with PAGEDEF=W12883 (or W120C2), FORMDEF=A10110 (or A10111) and CHARS=GT16.
  XPW12883 (PAGEDEF=W12883) is a landscape 2-up
  XPW120C2 (PAGEDEF=W120C2) is a portrait 2-up
• To implement duplex and 2UP a new FORMDEF should be created (eg. XFA10111) based on the supplied CBQ4OPTN(XFA10110) and add the $LPCMS macro to specify <esc>l1S PCL duplex command.

Additional Information:

Please refer to the Advanced Laser Printer section in the CA Spool Customization Guide for further details.

Environment

Release: CMASLI00200-11.7-Spool-Print Management-Interface for HP Laser
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