ASF Bin1: FORMFEED (*AUTOCUT) DRAWER (1)
ASF Bin2: FORMFEED (*AUTOCUT) DRAWER (2)
ASF Bin3: FORMFEED (*AUTOCUT) DRAWER (3)
In OS/400 Version 3 Release 2 and Release 7, the FORMFEED parameter has been enhanced; you can
now explicitly select the rear continuous form input source by using the following parameters:
Rear CF: FORMMEED (*CONT2)
Using GDDM
When the 4247 Printer is attached to GDDM in the S/390 environment, you can select media input
sources by using the IPDSBIN processing option.
The IPDSBIN processing option has the format (IPDSBIN,m,n), where mis the main document bin and n
is the header page bin. The values for 4247 Printer are:
0 = printer default
1 = front CF
2 = rear CF
5 = ASF Bin1
6 = ASF Bin2
7 = ASF Bin3
65 = envelopes
97-100 = manual feed bin
GDDM will not handle the linking of bins. Youmust specify the correct value according to the printer setup.
Using ‘forms’parameters
When users specified forms, prior to the 4247 printer, for continuous forms printers with only a single
continuous forms paper source, they used the FORMS parameters in JCL or,for the AS/400, the
FORMTYPE parameter. Youcan still use this method to direct the operator change to the correct forms for
the job. But you cannot use this method to cause the printer to switch between the Front and Rear
continuous forms sources.
Operator-Adjustable Forms
Toalign data on preprinted forms, the 4247 Printer operator can adjust the physical top and left margins,
which will offset the page image on the printing medium. The horizontal (left margin) adjustment range is
from −6.9 mm (−0.27 inches) to +38.35 mm (+1.51 inches). The vertical (top margin) adjustment range is
from −30.5 mm (−1.2 inches) to +38.1 mm (+1.5 inches). This adjustment does not affect the size of the
valid printable area; however, using this adjustment can produce positioning errors if the horizontal
adjustment is too large for the form being used.
Print-Quality Levels for IPDS Models
The 4247 Printer allows you to select different levels of print quality.Higher quality corresponds to slower
print speeds. Toselect a print-quality level, use the QUALITY subcommand on the COPYGROUP
command in the form definition. Touse Fast Draft Quality, you must enable it using a printer configuration
menu on the operator panel. Refer to your printer publications on how to do this. If the printer is not
configured, all requests to print using Fast Draft will automatically be printed in DP Quality.Specify the
values shown in Table92 on the QUALITY subcommand to get the correct print-quality level.
Table92. 4247 Printer Print-Quality Selection Values
Print-Quality Level Hexadecimal ValueRange Decimal ValueRange
Reserved X'00'
Fast Draft Quality X'01' through X'2A' 1 through 42
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