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<title>Printer file overview</title>
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<a name="rzaluprtfover"></a>
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<h4 id="rzaluprtfover">Printer file overview</h4>
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<p>Printers attached to the iSeries™ server are supported by the operating
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system through printer files. Printer files describe how the system is to
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operate on the data as it passes between your application program and a printer.</p>
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<p>A printer file handles every request for printing. There is one exception
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to this. It applies only to the Print key when the display station has an
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attached remote workstation controller. In this situation, the printer that
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is named in the device description for that display station receives the printed
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version of the screen. The remote workstation controller, not the iSeries server, handles
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this.</p>
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<p>Printer files contain many parameters that tell the system how the output
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should be formatted, what font to use for the printed output, whether to print
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on both sides of the page, and more. For example, the parameters that control
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how your output is handled and where it goes are:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>Spool the data (SPOOL)
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<br />*YES is the default value
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for the SPOOL parameter.
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<p>When the SPOOL parameter is set to *YES, the
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output from an application program (a spooled file) is sent to an output queue
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(OUTQ). When SPOOL = *YES, the system looks at the OUTQ parameter in the printer
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file to find out which output queue (OUTQ) to send the spooled file to. For
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example, the OUTQ value in your printer file could be OUTQ1. However, in the
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default printer file, QSYSPRT, the value specified is *JOB. This means that
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the QSYSPRT printer file tells the system to look at your job's OUTQ attribute
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to determine the name of the output queue (OUTQ).</p>
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<p>When the SPOOL parameter
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is set to *NO, the output from an application program is sent directly to
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a printer. When SPOOL = *NO, the system looks at the DEV parameter in the
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printer file to find out which printer to send the output to. For example,
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the DEV value in your printer file could be PRT01. However, in the default
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printer file, QSYSPRT, the value specified is *JOB. This means that the QSYSPRT
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printer file tells the system to look at your PRTDEV job's attribute to determine
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the name of the printer device (DEV).</p></li>
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<li>Device (DEV)
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<br />The device parameter indicates the
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name of a printer device description. If SPOOL = *NO is specified, the device
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parameter identifies the printer device used to produce the printed output.
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If SPOOL = *YES is specified, the device (DEV) parameter is ignored unless
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*DEV is specified for the output queue parameter. In that case, the default
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output queue for the specified printer is used for the spooled files.</li>
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<li>Spooled output queue (OUTQ)
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<br />The output queue parameter
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indicates which output queue your spooled files are sent to. If you have a
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program that creates large print jobs you might consider sending them to an
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output queue that will hold those spooled files until most of your printer
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work for the day is done. Doing this can help users who have lots of small
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jobs get their jobs printed in a reasonable amount of time.</li>
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<li>Spooled File Owner (SPLFOWN)
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<br />The SPLFOWN parameter
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specifies which user profile owns a file. The spooled file can be owned by
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the current job, a QPRTJOB for the current user, a group profile for the current
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user, or the group profile of the current job's user. For example, for server
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job debugging purposes, you might want the current job to own all service
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dumps, instead of the current user. To accomplish this, you could set the
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parameter to the special value of *JOB for the QPSRVDMP printer file.</li></ul>
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<p>There are two different types of printer files:</p>
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<ul>
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<li><span class="bold">Program-described printer files</span> rely on the high-level
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language program to define records and fields to be printed. For more information,
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see <a href="rzaluprogramexmp.htm#rzaluprogramexmp">Example: Using a program-described printer file with an application
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program</a>.</li>
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<li><span class="bold">Externally described printer files</span> use data description
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specifications (DDS) rather than the high-level language to define records
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and fields to be printed. DDS gives the application programmer much more format
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and print control over the printed output. For more information about DDS
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keywords, see <a href="../rzakd/kickoff.htm">DDS Reference: Printer files</a> in
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the Programming topic. For more information about using externally described
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printer files, see <a href="rzaluexternalexmp.htm#rzaluexternalexmp">Example: Using an externally described printer file with an application
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program</a>.</li></ul>
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<p>You can create your own printer files by using the <a href="../cl/crtprtf.htm">Create Printer File (CRTPRTF)</a>, or you can use system-provided printer
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files. See <a href="rzaluprtfparmsc.htm#rzaluprtfparmsc">Printer file parameter considerations</a> for more detailed information on
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certain printer file parameters.</p>
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<p>The following list contains the IBM-supplied printer files:</p>
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<ul>
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<li>QSYSPRT: A program-described printer file in library QSYS.</li>
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<li>QPRINT: Default spooled output printer file for normal print.</li>
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<li>QPRINTS: Default spooled output printer file for special forms.</li>
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<li>QPRINT2: Default spooled output printer file for two copies of output.</li>
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<li>QPSPLPRT: Default spooled output printer file for the spooling subsystem.</li></ul>
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<p>If another printer file is not specified, the printer uses the default
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printer file. The default printer file for the system is QSYSPRT.</p>
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