Infoprint Select README


Contents

Infoprint Select README

  • Installing Infoprint Select
  • Installing DCE support for Infoprint Select with an Infoprint Manager for AIX DCE server
  • Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select
  • Configuring for Fax and Email jobs with Select
  • Creating Infoprint Select printers
  • Collecting required information
  • Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows 98 systems
  • Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows ME systems
  • Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows NT systems
  • Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows 2000 systems
  • Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows XP systems
  • Commands you can use with Select
  • Querying destination attributes
  • Submitting a job
  • Querying jobs
  • |Specifying the logical destination name

  • Infoprint Select README

    Infoprint Select allows you to submit |and track jobs from a Windows workstation to a destination that is managed by Infoprint Manager on either an AIX or Windows server. Through Infoprint Select, you can submit jobs to Infoprint Manager from word processors, spreadsheets, and other desktop applications. You can print from applications, or from the DOS command line.

    |If you apply Infoprint Manager for Windows Program Temporary Fix |(PTF) UR53705 (for Windows) or Infoprint Manager for AIX Program Temporary Fix |(PTF) U484268 (for AIX), your enhanced Infoprint Select client allows you |to: |

    |For more information on these specific enhancements, see the |Infoprint Manager for Windows: Getting Started or the |Infoprint Manager for AIX: Getting Started book, as |applicable for your system, and consult the help system provided with the |Service Update 1 level of Infoprint Select.

    This section contains procedures for installing and using Infoprint Select. The following topics are covered:


    Installing Infoprint Select

    Important Note:
    |If you plan to install one or both of the Infoprint Manager GUIs as |well as Infoprint Select, the sequence of the installs is important. |Since Infoprint Select requires a system re-boot, you may wish to install the |Infoprint Manager GUI(s) first. |

    Follow these steps to install Infoprint Select on a Windows system from the Infoprint Manager Common Clients, LCD4-1917, CD-ROM:

    Note:
    If you plan to use Infoprint Select to submit print jobs to an Infoprint Manager for AIX server that uses the IBM Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) for AIX, refer to Installing DCE support for Infoprint Select with an Infoprint Manager for AIX DCE server before you continue with the installation.
    1. Insert the Infoprint Manager Common Clients CD-ROM into the drive.
    2. The install program will start automatically.
    3. Select the Install Products button, and then select the Infoprint Select button.
    4. Follow the instructions on the installation screens to install the program.
    5. Choose the type of install based upon your installation:

    Installing DCE support for Infoprint Select with an Infoprint Manager for AIX DCE server

    If you have IBM Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) installed on your computer at version 2.0 or later and your Infoprint AIX server was installed using the Advanced Security/Scalability (DCE) feature, you may choose to install DCE Support through the Custom installation method on InstallShield. DCE Support will allow you to use more than the pdpr, pdls, and pdq Infoprint Manager commands when communicating with Infoprint Manager servers that require DCE authorization. In addition, the Infoprint Manager administrator may restrict access to a printer to users who are logged into DCE with a particular DCE user ID or DCE group ID so you would not be able to submit jobs without the DCE support.

    Before you can use the extra commands or print to a restricted printer, you must do the following during the install process:

    1. Ensure that both Program Files and DCE support are selected on the next window.
    2. Proceed with the install instructions.
    3. Log into DCE as an authorized user or member of an authorized group.

    Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select

    In order for Infoprint Select to submit print, fax, or email jobs to Infoprint Manager properly, you must configure each Infoprint Manager logical destination to accept jobs from Infoprint Select. Use the Infoprint Manager Administration GUI as described in the following procedure to configure each logical destination correctly. If you want to use the command line instead of the GUI, use the pdset command to set the client-driver-names attribute.

    Note:
    It is highly recommended that users who submit jobs with Infoprint Select send them to Infoprint logical destinations, not to Infoprint actual destinations.
    1. Log on to a system that has the Infoprint Manager Administration GUI installed on it as a user with administrator privileges.
      Note:
      To be able to complete this procedure, you must have the authority to use the pdenable, pddisable, and pdset commands. If you do not have that authority, your user id must be added to the access control lists (ACLs) on your Infoprint Manager server.
    2. Launch the Infoprint Manager Administration GUI.
    3. Select one of the logical destinations that will receive print jobs from Infoprint Select by clicking on it once.
    4. On the menu bar, click Logical and select Properties.
    5. In the Properties notebook, click the Drivers tab.
      Note:
      If you do not see the Drivers tab, click Show more, then click the Drivers tab.
    6. In the New value field next to Windows client drivers, type the name of one of the print drivers that users will use to submit jobs in conjunction with Infoprint Select.
    7. Click Add >>.
    8. Repeat from 6 for all of the drivers that users will use with Infoprint Select.
    9. Click OK.

    Configuring for Fax and Email jobs with Select

    If your logical destination is configured to send jobs to either a fax or an email DSS, you also need to set the logical destination's destination-support-system attribute is set to either fax or email, whichever is appropriate. You can modify this value through the pdset command. For example, the following sets a destination-support-system value of fax for the logical destination fax1-ld.

    pdset -x "destination-support-system=fax" fax1-ld
    

    Creating Infoprint Select printers

    This section describes how to configure Infoprint Select clients to allow print job submission from Windows applications to destinations managed by an Infoprint Manager server. This section includes the following topics:

    Collecting required information

    Before you can print to an Infoprint Manager destination from a Windows application, you must add an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows environment. Collect the following information before you begin:

    Verify that the Infoprint Manager server logical destinations have been configured correctly. Refer to Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select for more information.

    Choosing the Right PPD
    If you plan to use Infoprint Select to print PostScript jobs to an AIX DSS (Infoprint Manager for AIX only), BSD DSS, or Passthrough DSS (Infoprint Manager for Windows only) printer, be sure to use the PostScript printer driver that came with your printer when you create an Infoprint Select printer on your desktop. These drivers include PostScript Printer Definitions (PPDs) that are specific to your printer. If you submit jobs to either the AIX, BSD, or Passthrough DSS printers, do not use the printer drivers and PPDs that are provided with Infoprint Select. They contain specific actual destination attributes that apply only to PSF DSS printers.

    Drivers and Finishing
    The automatic data stream transforms that PSF printers use do not support finishing (stapling). As a result, if you plan to use Infoprint Select to submit PCL or PostScript jobs to a PSF printer (destination), you cannot specify finishing options when you submit a job, even if the print driver you use supports those options. It is recommended that you either use a different method to submit those print jobs, or that you submit them to an Infoprint printer that does not transform the data stream (such as a Passthrough printer on Infoprint Manager for Windows or an AIX printer on Infoprint Manager for AIX).

    If you cannot use a different submission method and cannot submit your jobs to a different type of Infoprint printer, the only way to request finishing options on PCL and PostScript jobs submitted to a PSF destination is to use a default job. A default job is a list of attributes that is applied to every job that a particular logical destination receives. You can use the Infoprint Manager Administration GUI to modify the default job for the logical destination that Infoprint Select sends jobs to so that it requests the appropriate finishing options. However, this method is not recommended for two reasons:

    1. Every job that you send to that logical destination will be finished the same way. For example, if you set the Finishing options attribute of the default job to staple-top-left, every job that is submitted to that printer will be stapled.
    2. A logical destination can only have one default job, and a default job can only have one finishing option set. If you want to use different finishing options, you must create multiple logical destinations, each with different options set on the default jobs. Then, you must create a different printer on your desktop to submit jobs to each logical destination.

    Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows 98 systems

    Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows 98 systems

    Follow this procedure to add an Infoprint(R) Select printer to your Windows(R) 98 system:

    1. On the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon.
    2. Double-click the Printers folder icon.
    3. Double-click the Add Printer icon. The Add Printer Wizard window displays. Click Next.
    4. Select Local Printer and click Next.
    5. Click Have Disk.
      1. Click Select Printer Driver, or if you want to use the PPDs, click Browse.
      2. |Navigate to the directory where you installed Infoprint |Select. (By default, this is either |c:\Infoprint\Select or c:\Program |Files\IBM\Infoprint Select.) This directory holds the required |ibmprt95.inf file. Highlight this file.
      3. Click OK.
      4. Click OK to close the Install from Disk window.
    6. Select the printer you want to use and click Next.
    7. If the next dialog is a notification that the printer driver already exists, select Replace existing driver and click Next.
    8. In the Available ports list, highlight Infoprint (Infoprint Select) and click Next.
      Note:
      If you just installed Infoprint Select and cannot find it in the list, restart your system and start this procedure again from the beginning. If you cannot find the Infoprint Select port after you re-start the system, you may have to re-install Infoprint Select.
    9. Enter a name for the printer in the field provided. This is the name by which the printer will be known to your Windows applications and the Windows desktop. Click Next.
    10. When you are asked Would you like to print a test page?, select No and click Finish.
      Note:
      The printer does not appear instantaneously in the Printers window.

    If an Insert Disk dialog appears, click OK to close it.

    At this point, a Files Needed dialog may appear. In all likelihood, the required file (adfonts.mfm) is already present on your system. If the Files Needed dialog appears, follow these steps:

    1. Click the Browse button.
    2. Navigate to c:\windows\system, and select the file that is needed.
    3. |Click Open.
    4. Click OK to close the Copying Files dialog and to complete the configuration.

    If the Files Needed dialog appears again, follow a similar procedure to copy the files from the \windows\system or the Infoprint Select installation directory. You should find all missing files in one of these two locations.

    If you cannot find a file in either of these directories, you must retrieve it from the operating system CD-ROM or floppy disks.

    Next, update your port settings for this new printer:

    1. On the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon.
    2. Double-click the Printers folder.
    3. In the Printers window, right-click the icon for the first Infoprint Select printer you created and select Properties from the pop-up list.
    4. In the Properties window, click the Details tab.
    5. On the Details tab, click Port Settings. The Infoprint Port window displays.
    6. In the Print Server field, select Infoprint Manager from the drop-down list.
    7. In the Host Name field, type the host name of your Infoprint Manager server.
    8. In the Host Port field, type the port number that your Infoprint Manager server uses to communicate with client systems. The default port is 6874.
      Note:
      You can find this port number in the Service Configuration dialog in the Management Console.
    9. |In the Server name field, specify the name of the |Infoprint Manager server (pdserver) where your logical destination |resides.

      |If you are unsure of the correct Infoprint Manager server name, specify the |default value of * to list all the printers on all the Infoprint |Manager servers. Specifying the server name greatly reduces the number |of printers listed, which reduces the amount of time it takes to configure a |port.

      |Note:
      If you know the name of the printer you wish to use, type it in the Printer |name field and go to 12. If you do not know the name of the printer, leave |this value blank and you will receive a list of printers from which to |choose. |
    10. Click Refresh Printer Selection List.
    11. Select the appropriate printer from the list.
    12. Click OK.
    13. Click OK to close the Properties window.

    Changing print driver properties

    Next, you need to configure the print driver to work correctly with Infoprint Select to send binary data instead of ASCII data by doing the following:

    1. In the Printers window, select the printer that you just created.
    2. Click File -> Properties and the Printer Properties appears, where Printer is the printer that you just created.
    3. Click the PostScript tab and click Advanced.... The Advanced PostScript Options dialog box appears.
    4. Click Pure Binary Data.
    5. Click OK in the Advanced PostScript Options dialog box.
    6. Click OK in the Printers window.

    Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows 98 systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows 98 environment, you must first collect the information described in Collecting required information. Also, you must perform the appropriate server configuration as described in Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select.

    To print to an additional Infoprint Select printer, you must add an additional Infoprint Select port. Otherwise the configuration is similar to that described above in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows 98 systems.

    Follow these steps to add an additional Infoprint Select port:

    1. On the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon.
    2. Double-click the Printers folder.
    3. In the Printers window, right-click the icon for the first Infoprint Select printer you created and select Properties from the pop-up list.
    4. In the Properties window, click the Details tab.
    5. In the Details tab, click Add Port.
    6. In the Add Port window, select Other.
    7. Select Infoprint Select as the type of port and click OK.
    8. In the Infoprint Port dialog, type a name for the new port, such as Infoprint-2. (Use a name that is not used by any other port.) Click OK.
    9. Select Infoprint (Infoprint Select) from the Print to the following port pulldown list. This will restore the original port assignment for the initial Infoprint Select printer. (The port you just created still exists and will soon be used for the additional Infoprint Select printer.)
    10. Click OK to close the Properties window.

    After creating this new Infoprint Select port, follow the steps described in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows 98 systems, but select the new Infoprint Select port (for example, Infoprint-2) in step 8. Remember to configure the new port in step 5.

    Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows ME systems

    Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows ME systems

    Follow this procedure to add an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows ME system:

    1. On the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon.
    2. Double-click the Printers folder icon.
    3. Double-click the Add Printer icon. The Add Printer Wizard window displays. Click Next.
    4. Select Local Printer and click Next.
    5. Click Have Disk.
      1. Click Browse.
      2. Navigate to the directory where you installed Infoprint Select. (By default, this is either c:\Infoprint\Select or c:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint Select.) This directory holds the required ibmprt95.inf file.
      3. Click OK.
      4. Click OK to close the Install from Disk window.
    6. Select the printer you want to use and click Next.
    7. If the next dialog is a notification that the printer driver already exists, select Replace existing driver and click Next.
    8. In the Available ports list, highlight Infoprint (Infoprint Select).
      Note:
      If you just installed Infoprint Select and cannot find it in the list, restart your system and start this procedure again from the beginning. If you cannot find the Infoprint Select port after you re-start the system, you may have to re-install Infoprint Select.
    9. Click Configure Port. The Infoprint Port window displays.
    10. In the Print Server field, select Infoprint Manager from the drop-down list.
    11. In the Host Name field, type the host name of your Infoprint Manager server.
    12. In the Host Port field, type the port number that your Infoprint Manager server uses to communicate with client systems. The default port is 6874.
      Note:
      You can find this port number in the Service Configuration dialog in the Management Console.
    13. |In the Server name field, specify the name of the |Infoprint Manager server (pdserver) where your logical destination |resides. If you are unsure of the correct Infoprint Manager server |name, specify the default value of * to list all the printers on |all the Infoprint Manager servers. Specifying the server name greatly |reduces the number of printers listed, which reduces the amount of time it |takes to configure a port.
      |Note:
      If you know the name of the printer you wish to use, type it in the |Printer name field and go to 16. If you do not know the name of the printer, |leave this value blank and you will receive a list of printers from which to |choose. |
    14. Click Refresh Printer Selection List.
    15. Select the appropriate printer from the list.
    16. Click OK.
    17. Click Next.
    18. Enter a name for the printer in the field provided. This is the name by which the printer will be known to your Windows applications and the Windows desktop. Select whether or not the printer should be the default. Click Next.
    19. When you are asked Would you like to print a test page?, select No and click Finish.
      Note:
      The printer may not appear instantaneously in the Printers window.

    If an Insert Disk dialog appears, click OK to close it.

    At this point, a Files Needed dialog may appear. In all likelihood, the required file (adfonts.mfm) is already present on your system. If the Files Needed dialog appears, follow these steps:

    1. Click the Browse button.
    2. Navigate to c:\windows\system, and select the file that is needed.
    3. Click OK.
    4. Click OK to close the Copying Files dialog and to complete the configuration.

    If the Files Needed dialog appears again, follow a similar procedure to copy the files from the \windows\system or the Infoprint Select installation directory. You should find all missing files in one of these two locations.

    If you cannot find a file in either of these directories, you must retrieve it from the operating system CD-ROM.

    If you want to add additional Infoprint Select printers to your environment, follow the procedure described in Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows ME systems.

    Changing print driver properties

    Next, you need to configure the print driver to work correctly with Infoprint Select to send binary data instead of ASCII data by doing the following:

    1. In the Printers window, select the printer that you just created.
    2. Click File -> Properties and the Printer Properties appears, where Printer is the printer that you just created.
    3. Click the PostScript tab and click Advanced.... The Advanced PostScript Options dialog box appears.
    4. Click Pure Binary Data.
    5. Click OK in the Advanced PostScript Options dialog box.
    6. Click OK in the Printers window.

    Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows ME systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows ME environment, you must first collect the information described in Collecting required information. Also, you must perform the appropriate server configuration as described in Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select.

    To print to an additional Infoprint Select printer, you must add an additional Infoprint Select port. Otherwise the configuration is similar to that described above in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows ME systems.

    Follow these steps to add an additional Infoprint Select port:

    1. On the Windows desktop, double-click the My Computer icon.
    2. Double-click the Printers folder.
    3. In the Printers window, right-click the icon for the first Infoprint Select printer you created and select Properties from the pop-up list.
    4. In the Properties window, click the Details tab.
    5. In the Details tab, click Add Port.
    6. In the Add Port window, select Other.
    7. Select Infoprint Select as the type of port and click OK.
    8. In the Infoprint Port dialog, type a name for the new port, such as Infoprint-2. (Use a name that is not used by any other port.) Click OK.
    9. Select Infoprint (Infoprint Select) from the Print to the following port pulldown list. This will restore the original port assignment for the initial Infoprint Select printer. (The port you just created still exists and will soon be used for the additional Infoprint Select printer.)
    10. Click OK to close the Properties window.

    After creating this new Infoprint Select port, follow the steps described in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows ME systems, but select the new Infoprint Select port (for example, Infoprint-2) in step 8. Do not forget to configure the new port in step 9.

    Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows NT systems

    Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows NT systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows NT environment, you must first perform these steps:

    Follow these steps to add an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows NT system:

    1. On the Windows desktop, click the Windows Start button and select Settings -> Printers.
    2. Double-click the Add Printer icon. The Add Printer Wizard window displays.
    3. Select My Computer and click Next.
    4. In the Available ports list, find Infoprint Select and check the box next to it.
      Note:
      If you just installed Infoprint Select and cannot find it in the list, restart your system and start this procedure again from the beginning. If you cannot find the Infoprint Select port after you re-start the system, you may have to re-install Infoprint Select.
    5. Click Configure Port. The Infoprint Port Configuration dialog displays.
    6. In the Print Server field, select Infoprint Manager or Infoprint Manager Server from the dropdown list.
    7. In the Host Name field, type the host name of your Infoprint Manager server.
    8. In the Host Port field, type the port number that your Infoprint Manager server uses to communicate with client systems. The default port is 6874.
      Note:
      You can find this port number in the Service Configuration dialog in the Management Console.
    9. |In the Server name field, specify the name of the |Infoprint Manager server (pdserver) where your logical destination |resides.

      |If you are unsure of the correct Infoprint Manager server name, specify the |default value of * to list all the printers on all the Infoprint |Manager servers. Specifying the server name greatly reduces the number |of printers listed, which reduces the amount of time it takes to configure a |port.

      |Note:
      If you know the name of the printer you wish to use, type it in the |Printer name field and go to 12. If you do not know the name of the printer, |leave this value blank and you will receive a list of printers from which to |choose. |
    10. Click Refresh Printer Selection List.
    11. Select the appropriate printer from the list.
    12. Click OK.
    13. Click Next.
    14. Click Have Disk.
      1. Click Browse.
      2. Navigate to the directory where you installed Infoprint Select. (By default, this is either c:\Infoprint\Select or c:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint Select.) This directory holds the required ibmprint.inf file.
      3. |Click Open.
      4. Click OK to close the Install from Disk window.
    15. Select the printer driver you wish to install and click Next.
    16. If the next dialog tells you that the printer driver already exists, select Replace existing driver and click Next.
    17. Enter a name for the printer in the field provided. This is the name by which the printer will be known to your Windows applications and the Windows desktop. Click Next.
    18. Confirm that the Not shared radio button is selected and click Next.
    19. When you are asked Would you like to print a test page?, select No and click Finish.

    When the Files Needed dialog appears

    A Files Needed dialog may open at this point. In all likelihood, the file you need (pscript.dll) is already present on your system. If the Files Needed dialog does appear, follow these steps:

    1. In the Files Needed dialog, click Browse.
    2. Navigate to the c:\winnt\system32 directory (assuming that your operating system is installed on the c: drive) and select the file that is needed.
    3. Click Open.
    4. Click OK.
    5. If the pscript.dll file is not found in this directory, you must load it from the operating system CD-ROM. To do this, follow these steps:
      1. Insert the Windows NT operating system CD-ROM.
      2. In the Files Needed dialog, click Browse.
      3. Navigate to the d:\I386\Pscript.dl_ file (where d: is your CD-ROM drive) and select the file that is needed.
      4. Click Open and then OK to complete the configuration.

    If you want to add additional Infoprint Select printers to your environment, follow the procedure described in Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows NT systems.

    Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows NT systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows NT environment, you must first collect the information described in Collecting required information. Also, you must perform the appropriate server configuration as described in Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select.

    To print to an additional Infoprint Select printer, you must add an additional Infoprint Select port. Otherwise the configuration is similar to that described above in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows NT systems.

    To add an additional Infoprint printer to your Windows NT environment, follow these steps:

    1. On the Windows desktop, click the Windows Start button and select Settings -> Printers.
    2. Double-click the Add Printer icon. The Add Printer Wizard window displays.
    3. Select My Computer and click Next.
    4. Click Add Port.
    5. In the Printer ports dialog, find the Infoprint port monitor and select it.
    6. Click New Port.
    7. In the dialog that opens, type a name for the new port, such as Infoprint-2, and click OK. (Use a name that no other port uses.)
    8. Click Close to return to the Add Printer Wizard. The port you just created is selected.
    9. Continue with step 5 of the procedure documented in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows NT systems, configuring the new port you just added.

    Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows 2000 systems

    Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows 2000 systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows 2000 system, you must first perform these steps:

    Follow these steps to add an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows 2000 system:

    1. From the Windows desktop, click Start -> Settings -> Printers -> Add Printer.
    2. The Add Printer Wizard window displays. Click Next.
    3. In the Local or Network Printer dialog, select the Local printer button and ensure that the Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play Printer button is not selected. Click Next.
    4. In the Select the Printer Port dialog, select the Use the following port check box, then scroll down the list of ports until you find the Infoprint port and select it. Click Next.
    5. |Click Have Disk. |
      1. |Click Browse.
      2. |Navigate to the directory where you installed Infoprint Select. (By |default, this is either c:\Infoprint\Select or |c:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint Select.) This directory |holds the required ibmprint.inf file. Highlight this |file.
      3. |Click Open.
      4. |Click OK to close the Install from Disk |window. |
    6. On the next dialog, select the manufacturer and model of your printer and click Next.
    7. If the driver for your printer is already installed, the Use Existing Driver dialog appears. Click Next.
    8. The Name your Printer dialog appears. Enter a name for the printer in the field provided. This is the name by which the printer will be known to your Windows applications and the Windows desktop. Click Next.
    9. Select the Do not share this printer radio button and click Next.
    10. When you are asked Would you like to print a test page? select No and click Next.
    11. Click Finish.
    12. From the Windows desktop, click the Windows Start button and select Settings -> Printers.
    13. On the menu bar of the Printers window, click File and select Server Properties.
    14. In the Print Server Properties window, click the Ports tab.
    15. Highlight the Infoprint Select port that you want to configure and click Configure Port.
    16. In the Infoprint Port Configuration window, find the Print Server field and select Infoprint Manager or Infoprint Manager Server from the dropdown list.
    17. In the Host Name field, type the host name of your Infoprint Manager server.
    18. In the Host Port field, type the port number that your Infoprint Manager server uses to communicate with client systems. The default port is 6874.
      Note:
      You can find this port number in the Service Configuration dialog in the Management Console.
    19. |In the Server name field, specify the name of the |Infoprint Manager server (pdserver) where your logical destination |resides.

      |If you are unsure of the correct Infoprint Manager server name, specify the |default value of* to list all the printers on all the Infoprint |Manager servers. Specifying the server name greatly reduces the number |of printers listed, which reduces the amount of time it takes to configure a |port.

      |Note:
      If you know the name of the printer you wish to use, type it in the |Printer name field and go to 22. If you do not know the name of the printer, |leave this value blank and you will receive a list of printers from which to |choose. |
    20. Click Refresh Printer Selection List.
    21. Select the appropriate printer from the list.
    22. Click OK.
    23. Click Close.

    When Files Needed dialog appears

    A Files Needed dialog may open at this point. In all likelihood, the file you need (pscript.dll) is already present on your system. If the Files Needed dialog does appear, follow these steps:

    1. Click Browse.
    2. Navigate to the c:\winnt\system32 directory (assuming that your operating system is installed on the c: drive), and select the file that is needed.
    3. Click Open.
    4. Click OK.
    5. If the pscript.dll file is not found in this directory, you must load it from the operating system CD-ROM. To do this, follow these steps:
      1. Insert the Windows 2000 operating system CD-ROM.
      2. Click Browse on the Files Needed dialog.
      3. Navigate to the d:\I386\Pscript.dl_ file (where d: is your CD-ROM drive).
      4. Click Open and then OK to complete the configuration.

    If you want to add additional Infoprint Select printers to your environment, follow the procedure described in Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows 2000 systems.

    Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows 2000 systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows 2000 environment, you must first collect the information described in Collecting required information. Also, you must perform the appropriate server configuration as described in Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select.

    To print to an additional Infoprint Select printer, you must add an additional Infoprint Select port. Otherwise the configuration is similar to that described above in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows 2000 systems.

    To add an additional Infoprint printer to your Windows 2000 system, follow these steps:

    1. From the Windows desktop, click Start -> Settings -> Printers -> Add Printer.
    2. The Add Printer Wizard window displays. Click Next.
    3. In the Local or Network Printer dialog, select Local printer and clear the Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play Printer checkbox. Click Next.
    4. |Click Create a new port and highlight Infoprint |Select from the pull-down list. Click |Next.
    5. In the dialog that opens, type a name for the new port, such as Infoprint-2, and click OK. (Use a name that no other port uses.)
    6. Continue with step 5 of the procedure documented in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows 2000 systems, configuring the new port you just added.

    Creating Infoprint Select printers on Windows XP systems

    Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows XP systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows XP system, you must first perform these steps:

    Follow these steps to add an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows XP system:

    1. From the Windows desktop, click Start -> Printers and Faxes.
    2. Select to Add a printer. The Add Printer Wizard window displays. Click Next.
    3. In the Local or Network Printer dialog, select the Local printer button and ensure that the Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play Printer button is not selected. Click Next.
    4. In the Select the Printer Port dialog, select the Use the following port check box, then scroll down the list of ports until you find the Infoprint port and select it. Click Next.
    5. |Click Have Disk. |
      1. |Click Browse.
      2. |Navigate to the directory where you installed Infoprint Select. (By |default, this is either c:\Infoprint\Select or |c:\Program Files\IBM\Infoprint Select.) This directory |holds the required ibmprint.inf file. Highlight this |file.
      3. |Click Open.
      4. |Click OK to close the Install from Disk |window. |
    6. Select the manufacturer and model of your printer and click Next.
    7. If the driver for your printer is already installed, the Use Existing Driver dialog appears. Click Next.
    8. The Name your Printer dialog appears. Enter a name for the printer in the field provided. This is the name by which the printer will be known to your Windows applications and the Windows desktop. Click Next.
    9. Select the Do not share this printer radio button and click Next.
    10. When you are asked Would you like to print a test page? select No and click Next.
    11. Click Finish.
    12. On the menu bar of the Printers and Faxes window, click File and select Server Properties.
    13. In the Print Server Properties window, click the Ports tab.
    14. Highlight the Infoprint Select port that you want to configure and click Configure Port.
    15. In the Infoprint Port Configuration window, find the Print Server field and select Infoprint Manager or Infoprint Manager Server from the dropdown list.
    16. In the Host Name field, type the host name of your Infoprint Manager server.
    17. In the Host Port field, type the port number that your Infoprint Manager server uses to communicate with client systems. The default port is 6874.
      Note:
      You can find this port number in the Service Configuration dialog in the Management Console.
    18. |In the Server name field, specify the name of the |Infoprint Manager server (pdserver) where your logical destination |resides. If you are unsure of the correct Infoprint Manager server |name, specify the default value of * to list all the printers on |all the Infoprint Manager servers. Specifying the server name greatly |reduces the number of printers listed, which reduces the amount of time it |takes to configure a port..
      |Note:
      If you know the name of the printer you wish to use, type it in the |Printer name field and go to 21. If you do not know the name of the printer, |leave this value blank and you will receive a list of printers from which to |choose. |
    19. Click Refresh Printer Selection List.
    20. Select the appropriate printer from the list.
    21. Click OK.
    22. Click Close.

    When Files Needed dialog appears

    A Files Needed dialog may open at this point. In all likelihood, the file you need (pscript.dll) is already present on your system. If the Files Needed dialog does appear, follow these steps:

    1. Click Browse.
    2. Navigate to the c:\winnt\system32 directory (assuming that your operating system is installed on the c: drive), and select the file that is needed.
    3. Click Open.
    4. Click OK.
    5. If the pscript.dll file is not found in this directory, you must load it from the operating system CD-ROM. To do this, follow these steps:
      1. Insert the Windows XP operating system CD-ROM.
      2. Click Browse on the Files Needed dialog.
      3. Navigate to the d:\I386\Pscript.dl_ file (where d: is your CD-ROM drive).
      4. Click Open and then OK to complete the configuration.

    If you want to add additional Infoprint Select printers to your environment, follow the procedure described in Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows XP systems.

    Adding an additional Infoprint Select printer on Windows XP systems

    Before adding an Infoprint Select printer to your Windows XP environment, you must first collect the information described in Collecting required information. Also, you must perform the appropriate server configuration as described in Configuring your Infoprint Manager server to work with Infoprint Select.

    To print to an additional Infoprint Select printer, you must add an additional Infoprint Select port. Otherwise the configuration is similar to that described above in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows XP systems.

    To add an additional Infoprint printer to your Windows XP system, follow these steps:

    1. From the Windows desktop, click Start -> Settings -> Printers -> Add Printer.
    2. Select to Add a printer. The Add Printer Wizard window displays. Click Next.
    3. In the Local or Network Printer dialog, select Local printer and clear the Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play Printer checkbox. Click Next.
    4. Click Add port and highlight Infoprint Select from the pull-down list. Click Next.
    5. In the dialog that opens, type a name for the new port, such as Infoprint-2, and click OK. (Use a name that no other port uses.)
    6. Continue with step 5 of the procedure documented in Adding your first Infoprint Select printer on Windows XP systems, configuring the new port you just added.

    Commands you can use with Select

    Typically, Infoprint Select is used to allow users to print to Infoprint Manager destinations from existing Windows applications (usually through the Print option on the File menu). In addition, you can use several Infoprint commands that can be issued at a Command Prompt on the client system.

    Information about security and how users can be authorized to Infoprint Manager is found in the topics "Managing Infoprint security with DCE" and "Managing non-DCE security for Infoprint Manager for AIX" in the IBM Infoprint Manager for AIX: Procedures manual.

    Information about security and how users can be authorized to Infoprint Manager is found in the topic "Managing Security" in the IBM Infoprint Manager for Windows: Procedures manual.

    Infoprint Manager allows authorized users (normally all users) to use the following Infoprint commands:

    pdls
    Lists selected attribute values for a job, destination, or other Infoprint object

    pdpr
    Submits a job to a logical destination

    pdq
    Queries the status of selected jobs, of all jobs submitted to a logical destination, or of all jobs assigned to an actual destination

    Infoprint Manager allows authorized users (the job owner is usually authorized) to use the following Infoprint commands:

    pdmod
    Modifies the attributes of submitted jobs or of the documents in them

    pdrm
    Deletes jobs

    Infoprint Manager allows only authorized users to use the following Infoprint commands:

    pdaccount
    Collects summary accounting information for a specified time period in a comma delimited format about actual destinations on one or more servers. This information can be filed and imported into a spread sheet to calculate the cost of consumables, the usage rate of printers, the cost for each user, and so forth.

    pdcreate
    Creates logical destinations, queues, actual destinations, default jobs, default documents, media, auxiliary sheets, and resource contexts

    pdclean
    Removes all jobs from a server, logical destination, queue, or actual destination

    pddelete
    Deletes servers, logical destinations, queues, actual destinations, default jobs, default documents, media, auxiliary sheets, resource contexts, and jobs

    pddisable
    Prevents destinations from accepting jobs and logs from logging

    pdenable
    Enables destinations to accept jobs and logs to log

    pdpause
    Pauses a job, actual destination, queue, or all the queues and actual destinations in a server

    pdpromote
    Advances a job to the head of the queue

    pdreorder
    Reassigns a job to an actual destination or to the unassigned jobs area in the same server or in another server, and allows you to schedule it immediately before or after another job

    pdresubmit
    Resubmits a job, all the jobs submitted to a logical destination, or all the jobs in a queue to another logical destination

    pdresume
    Enables paused objects to resume operation

    pdset
    Sets or changes the values of attributes describing Infoprint objects

    pdshutdown
    Stops servers or actual destinations

    pdspace
    Backspaces or forward spaces a PSF physical printer
    Note:
    For more information about Infoprint commands and attributes, refer to Infoprint Manager: Reference, or to the man pages. Command man pages have the same name as the command.

    Querying destination attributes

    To determine whether the logical destination london is ready to receive jobs, enter:

    pdls -c destination -r "destination-state" london
    

    Submitting a job

    To submit the file myjob.ps to the logical destination london and request two-sided printing, enter:

    pdpr -d london -x "sides=2" myjob.ps
    
    Note:
    The Infoprint Manager: Reference lists all the attributes and values that you can specify on the pdpr command.

    Querying jobs

    To query all the jobs that you submitted to logical destination london, enter:

    pdq -d london
    

    Infoprint returns information similar to the following:

                                            Intervening Destination Destination
    Job ID               Name      State    Jobs        Requested   Assigned
    --- ---------------- --------- -------- ----------- ----------- -----------
    13  Serv1:1104221000 report.ps printing 0           london       caxton
    14  Serv1:1104221023 myjob.ps  pending  8           london       morris    
    

    |Specifying the logical destination name

    |If you want to print from the command line to a single logical |destination without having to specify the -p flag or its argument |with each job, you can define the logical destination name on your system by |doing the following: |

    1. |Open a Command Prompt window and edit the autoexec.bat |file.
    2. |Add the following line to the file:
      |SET PDPRINTER=logicaldestinationname
    3. |Save your changes and close the autoexec.bat |file.
    4. |Restart the Windows system to make this change effective. |

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