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InfoPrint

Printer Standards

• Printers must support PCL 4 or higher.
• Printers may support other print protocols if they are capable of automatically detecting and switching to/from these protocols whenever such data steams might arrive from another print host.
• Printers must be IP addressable. AL IP addresses will be resolved from registered DNS entries.
• Printers should respond to SNMP at least at the READ level. The community name of "public" will be the default, if that is not the community name add a comment in the special requirements section. Printers with this capability will be given full support, which is the best possible scenario for end users. Requests to add printers that are not SNMP compatible will be accepted; however, support and throughput cannot be guaranteed.
• Accurate print accounting data will be assured only for those devices that provide impression counts via PJL or IPDS interfaces.
• The primary (default) input tray will contain the "default" forms for the device, typically 8 ½ x 11 blank forms.
• The secondary input tray will contain the paper to be used for job separator pages.
• Any other tray configuration or use of additional trays or special output handling features will be the responsibility of the application developer or printer user.
• Campus specific naming standards for InfoPrint Manager printers and MVS print destinations will be followed.
• MVS print destinations will be prefixed with the appropriate MVS campus code.
• Printers to receive jobs larger than 500 pages MUST use IPDS datastream.
• Printers shared with other applications must be released in a timely manner.
• Some printers will not print "edge-to-edge" in some directions. Applications have been developed that expect to print within 1/8" of the page edge. Printers that can't print to the edge in all directions may lose print or generate errors. (HP 2000 series are an example)
• HP and other vendor's "Host Based" printers will not work with InfoPrint. We haven´t found a sure method to determine what printers are "host based", but if ONLY Windows and OS X are listed as supported, the printer may be host based.
• Printer names are restricted to 7 characters due to CICS application restrictions. Printer names cannot start with a number or a special character.
• Dell 5100 CN, HP OfficeJet 7410, and HP 2600 N printers are NOT compatible with InfoPrint.