Hi,
We have IBM infoprint 4000 Model IS1 AFP printer with TCP/IP
connection, our objective is to print through AIX non afp files, we
have been told by IBM that we need infoprint manager to do this so we
got the infoprint manager from IBM, however I have gone through all
the guides of Infoprint 4.1 but cannot find any thing how to configure
this IBM infoprint 4000 printer under AIX 4.3.3, though I have
installed the infoprint software on AIX but there is no afp driver
available for this printer. Any help hints or tips will be of great
help to solve this puzzle.
Thanks

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Here's the trick: The 4000-IS1 will not be configured under your base
AIX system, it will only be configured within Infoprint Manager for
AIX. Once you have Infoprint Manager properly configured (expect to
take some time doing this, it's a rather complicated software package
-- you'll do a *lot* of reading, which is one reason that IBM
recommends that you have one of their "install teams" do the initial
installation and configuration for you) you'll be able to send print
jobs to IPM using Infoprint Submit or Infoprint Select (there are
other ways, too, including lpr - *if* you have everything set up
correctly), and IPM will convert the data stream from Postscript or
PDF into AFP/IPDS and send it to the printer. If your print data uses
a large variety of fonts, be sure to check out and activate the
FontSave facility within IPM, it will save you some headaches. I
don't recall if the 4000-IS1 supports "Print on Demand" mode or not
(where all of the pages of a print job are saved on the controller
hard drive before the job is printed), but if it does support POD, use
it. Your overall print performance should be much better with POD
than without (especially if you print multiple copies).

Rick Ekblaw

Originally posted by Rick Ekblaw
> Here's the trick: The 4000-IS1 will not be configured under your base
> AIX system, it will only be configured within Infoprint Manager for
> AIX. Once you have Infoprint Manager properly configured (expect to
> take some time doing this, it's a rather complicated software package
> -- you'll do a *lot* of reading, which is one reason that IBM
> recommends that you have one of their "install teams" do the initial
> installation and configuration for you) you'll be able to send print
> jobs to IPM using Infoprint Submit or Infoprint Select (there are
> other ways, too, including lpr - *if* you have everything set up
> correctly), and IPM will convert the data stream from Postscript or
> PDF into AFP/IPDS and send it to the printer. If your print data uses
> a large variety of fonts, be sure to check out and activate the
> FontSave facility within IPM, it will save you some headaches. I
> don't recall if the 4000-IS1 supports "Print on Demand" mode or not
> (where all of the pages of a print job are saved on the controller
> hard drive before the job is printed), but if it does support POD, use
> it. Your overall print performance should be much better with POD
> than without (especially if you print multiple copies).
>
> Rick Ekblaw
Hi, Thanks for the reply, I do have installed the inforprint manager
however am unable to run the gui using ipguiadvadm command, it seems
this command is not installed with the pacakge, also when I was
installing the package it asked for the high/midium/low speed printer
engine future installation but when I choose either of it it says
license not found so where do I put the license in it? I do receive I
cd that says low speed license but its windows readable not AIX. Thanks
in advance for the help.

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abbasi2 <member33165@dbforums.com> wrote in message news:<3132645.1058765232@dbforums.com>...
> Hi, Thanks for the reply, I do have installed the inforprint manager
> however am unable to run the gui using ipguiadvadm command, it seems
> this command is not installed with the pacakge, also when I was
> installing the package it asked for the high/midium/low speed printer
> engine future installation but when I choose either of it it says
> license not found so where do I put the license in it? I do receive I
> cd that says low speed license but its windows readable not AIX. Thanks
> in advance for the help.

I'm running IPM version 3.2, not the 4.1 version you are running, so
the procedure might be a bit different. When I installed IPM 3.2, I
was prompted to put my license keys in the appropriate boxes, and my
license keys were supplied on a sheet of paper, tied to my customer
number. I'd suggest that you contact your IBM sales representative
and make sure that the proper features were ordered for your Infoprint
Manager software (the Infoprint 4000 requires a high speed license).

Rick Ekblaw