Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

566.0. "Site printers and Print Styles" by ULYSSE::DAVID (Guy David @VBE) Fri Apr 24 1992 14:51

        Hello,
        
        In the ALL-IN-1 v3.0 Management Guide, chapter 13 (Formating and 
        Printing), paragraph 13.5, just before figure 13-3, I found this 
        sentence about site printers and print style (printer types) :
        
        "If you add a new printer, you must enter the details in the 
        printer types file before entering the details into the site 
        printers file."
        
        I did some tests and it worked like this.
        
        Therefore, this means that if I want to create a new System 
        Printer Style, to be used for example with all LPS20 printers on 
        my system, I need to delete and create again all LPS20 printer 
        destinations on the system. This is a loss of time.
        
        Did I miss something ?
        
        
        Guy.

    
    Guy,
    
    You do not need to delete and re-create the LPS20 printer destinations.
    All you need do is to edit each LPS20 printer destination to change the
    Format Printer Type field to your new Printer Style.
    
    The sentence in the Management Guide is there because the Format
    Printer Type field  on the Site Printers form validates against the
    System Print Styles.  Therefore the System Print Style must exist
    before it can be entered in the Format Printer Type field.
    
    Jon

        It's ok now. I misunderstood some links between the different 
        files involved when printing.
        
        Thanks for the answer,
        Guy.