Overview

BARR/PRINT390

BARR/PRINT390 is an optional software and hardware module of the Barr Enterprise Print Server. It connects channel-attached production printers to a Windows-based personal computer. It drives up to eight printers per adapter and can use up to four adapters per print server.

BARR/PRINT390 integrates easily into the Windows print architecture. The module is implemented with two components: a Barr PRINT390 printer driver and a Barr PRINT390 port monitor Program that monitors Windows printer ports. Used when files are directed from the Windows Spooler to a destination device. The Barr PRINT390 printer driver prepares data for a channel printer by generating EBCDIC data with S/390 machine carriage control. The Barr PRINT390 port monitor is used to communicate with the CHANNEL-OUT adapter.

• Features

• Supported printers

• Printer initialization files

What do you want to do?

• Get started with BARR/PRINT390

See also:

• BARR/CHANNEL-OUT overview

• Common questions

• Troubleshooting

• System requirements

Features

• Preserves investment in channel-attached printers

• Provides inexpensive alternative to channel extenders

• Connects to multiple hosts at the same time

• Supports 3211 line and Xerox Metacode and LCDS printing

• Supports interlock transfer modes: SingleTag and HST Acronym for High-Speed Transfer. A type of channel data transfer that uses two signal pairs (Service In, Service Out and Data In, Data Out).

• Supports data streaming The uninterrupted transfer of information over an interface to achieve high data transfer rates. transfer modes, 3.0 and 4.5 Mbps

• Initializes and resets each printer independently

• Displays real-time status for each printer on the spool screen

• Drives up to eight daisy-chained Connected one to another, like daisies in a chain of flowers. S/390 channel-attached printers per adapter

• Prints up to 700 pages per minute with transfer rates varying based on the record size and processor speed

• 3800 printers support Table Reference Characters (TRC), allowing multiple fonts to be used on one page

• Shares the BARR/CHANNEL-OUT adapter with BARR/PRINT390 for IPDS to support IPDS printers

Supported printers

Line printers and plotters

• IBM 3203, 3211, 4245, 4248, and 6262 printers

• IBM 3203 or 3211 type plotters

• STK 5000

Laser and non-impact printers

• Comparex 6890, 6900

• Nipson Series 3000

• Océ 2050-300, 2075-2, 2090-2, 2140-2, 2140-3, 2200-2, 2200-3, 2240-2, 2240-3, 2300-2

• STK 6100-19, 6100-26

• Xerox 4050, 4075, 4090, 4135, 4635, 4650, 4850, 4890, 8790, 9790

• IBM 3800 in compatibility mode

Computer output microfiche devices

• Anacomp DatagrapiX, XFP 2000

• Kodak Komstar, Optistar

• Micrographics Technology COM 6831

Printer initialization files

Some printer initialization files are included with the BARR/PRINT390 module. Unless otherwise specified, the setup program installs the files in the \\Program Files\Barr\Spooler\PRINT390Ref folder.

The supplied printer initialization files include UCS Acronym for Universal Character Set. Some printers require loading a UCS buffer to match the print train or band installed. buffer files and special printer command files. These files apply only to printers that must load an UCS buffer, such as the IBM 3203 and 3211 printers. You can specify which initialization files to send when you define a spool printer.