Hapag-Lloyd
Hamburg
Remote AFP Printing to HP-PCL4/5 with Papyrus Host
and Server
The Highlights:
>> Drive
remote HP-PCL4/5 printers with AFP.
>> AFP resource
management from mainframe.
>> Remote
operator spool control.
>> Remote
view and reprint output.
>> Enhancd
function set for OCE multi-bin printers.
>> Print
AFP to ASCII linemode impact printers.
The Requirements:
Hapag-Lloyd is one of the largest shipping companies
in the world.
Its headquarters in Hamburg, Germany manage and control
most of its shipment planning and tracking for all the
vessels at sea. This requires centrally controlled printing
and management of the complex print applications in
each destination countries language.
One of the big problems of dealing with a multilingual
environment and to develop print applications in many
languages is the language codepages.
A further requirement was the need to manage the printers
and the related resources centrally in Hamburg.
The Solution:
Hapag-Lloyd chose Papyrus for its international printing
because of the underlying AFP archtitecture. It enables
them to print multiple languages in several codepages
for each font on mainframe and any HP-PCL4/5 printer.
With AFP as used in Papyrus, there are no problems related
to using different codepages for forms in several languages
printing the same font. Hapag-Lloyd did not utilize
AFP in any way before installing Papyrus.
Using a central AFP resource library on MVS, Hapag-Lloyd
uses Papyrus Host to distribute AFP resources either
automatically with each print or to update the resource
libraries overnight with distribution jobs. O GL and
PPFA functions in Papyrus Designer are used at this
stage for application development.
The printers are defined to JES2 in a very flexible
manner, where either the server itself or one of several
printers driven by one server can be addressed. Printer
selection can be based on forms parameters in the job
control, providing automatic printer targeting for a
certain forms request. The two printers loaded with
different paper forms effectively have the same printer
destination name.
When Hapag-Lloyd decided to install a 100 Papyrus Servers
worldwide, their decision was also influenced by the
capability of ISIS to enhance the support for OCE printers
with addressing mulitple output bins explicitly and
to print AFPDS or PAGEDEF applications to ASCII line-mode
printers.
Hapag-Lloyds print applications and network printers
are now completely hardware independent utilizing a
large number of HP-PCL4/5 compatible LAN printers without
any specialized hardware intefaces. The future use of
IPDS or even Xerox Metacode printers is possible without
any consideration in the application.
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