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Printer Mapping |
  
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Printer Mapping |
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It is important to understand the concept of printer mapping. Printer mapping is the association of Virtual IPDS Printer with a non-IPDS printer be it a Laserjet printer, Inkjet printer, Dot matrix printer, AiO (All-in-One) printer, or a MFP (Multi-functional printer) devices.
Let's take the following 6 printers as an example,
On this computer we have three printers, one Virtual IPDS Printer, one AFP Printer, two EPSON non-IPDS printers, and one Fax printer, and one XPS printer. As is known both Fax and Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer are virtual printers. Users can print any type of document to this Fax printer to get the document faxed; they can print to this Microsoft XPS Document Writer printer to get printing result archived in XPS document format.
When users print their documents to the AFP Printer, they get printing archived in AFP / IPDS format, i.e. the AFP files.
Now let's associate the Virtual IPDS Printer with EPSON Stylus Pro 9800 printer,
1. Double-click Virtual IPDS Printer on your Desktop.
2. Choose Target Printer from the drop-down list, here the target printer should be the EPSON Stylus Pro 9800 printer.
3. Enable logging if you prefer.
4. Make sure you have checked the Share Virtual IPDS Printer for IBM AS/400, Mainframe, iSeries, zSeries option.
5. Specify a temporary folder to cache the IPDS print jobs before they are sent to the EPSON printer.
6. Click Apply button to apply the changes we have just made.
Now Virtual IPDS Printer has been associated with EPSON Stylus Pro 9800 printer, and we have completed printer mapping.
Anything you print to Virtual IPDS Printer will be actually printed to EPSON Stylus Pro 9800 printer. It is time that you print your financial reports from an IBM AS/400 or Mainframe system to this shared Virtual IPDS Printer across your network, and eventually get the printing presented on paper sheets by EPSON Stylus Pro 9800 printer.