Q: Ok so my workplace has a as400 netowkr setup and everything has been working fine with this liexmark printer until today. It simply will not print and defies all logic why it wont. There are no messsges waiting for it, it is assigned to a queue, the prpinter is on, detected, set up, and communicating. The documetns wimply wont go to the printe queue. I tried stopping and starting and reassigning the queue but no luck. Please any help is greatly appreciated as the is affecting buisness.
A: I assume this is a LAN attached printer. If you have set the printer up as a PRINTER DEVICE, you may have issues that become unexplainable. To get the printer device working again, you need to make sure the device is Varied ON. THEN start the writer. When these problems became to much to manage for my company having 300+ printers as printer devices, we changed all the printers to remote writers and the issues disappeared..... I would convert the printer now to an IP outq....First you will need to remove the current printer and print device. CRTOUTQ OUTQ(QGPL/OutqName) RMTSYS(*INTNETADR) RMTPRTQ(OutqName) AUTOSTRWTR(1) CNNTYPE(*IP) DESTTYPE(*OTHER) TRANSFORM(*YES) MFRTYPMDL(F4-Prompt this option to match your printer) INTNETADR(x.x.x.x) DESTOPT(XAIX) DSPDTA(*YES) To start this type of printer you STRRMTWTR OutqName