Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Printer Level Checking works as follows:

    Printer Destinations are specified as SUPPORTING a named Printer Level

    Final Formats are specified as REQUIRING a named Printer Level


If Printer Level checking is enabled then the Level required by the Final 
Format must match the level supported by the destination.

    When printing Revisable documents we check that the type of Final form
    file which will be created by the formatter is supported by the Printer
    Destination. 

    When printing Final form documents we check that the already formatted
    file is supported by the Printer Destination. 




Your RFS_POSTSCRIPT Printer Destination entry specifies that it supports 
the Printer Level of 'LN03R-PS'.  The message indicates that the final form 
files you are creating are LN03-R, that is there is mismatch the print 
level of the destination and the level required by the document.


Could you provide the display of the:

    The Print style LN03-R (the first screen is enough)

    The Printer Level LN03R-PS



Richard

Hi Richard,

I modified my site printer as follow:


                              Site Printers Master


  Printer Name:              RFS_POSTSCRIPT

  Description:               Stampante Postscript 6 piano (LN03R)

  Format Printer Type:       PS
  Destination Printer Type:  SYSTEM_PRINTER

  Print queue:               RFS_POSTSCRIPT

  Printer level:             PS

  Comments:


Now what happens is that all revisable documents (Post or ASCII) are
printed, without any print level check!

Printing final documents, the print level check is correctly performed, 
and only PS documents are printed!

I understood that the revisable documents are those not formatted.
Is it correct?

Is the print level check applicable only to the final documents?

Sorry but I'm a little bit confused!!

Below you can find the print level and the printer type settings.

Many thanks.
					Bye
							
				     Graziella



                              Printer Types Master

  Printer Type:             PS

  Description:              Generic PostScript printer
  Printer Device:           PS

  Print Destination Type:
  Final Form Style:

  Additional Printer Options: A

  After time:   Changeable: Y          Value:
  Hold job:     Changeable: Y          Value:

  Burst page:   Changeable: Y          Value:
  Flag page:    Changeable: Y          Value:
  Trailer page: Changeable: Y          Value:
  Form feed:    Changeable: Y          Value:



  Press RETURN to complete, or press NEXT SCREEN for more fields      (more...)

                            Printer Support Levels


 Device type: PS


 ASCII (Y/N):               N
   Line Printer (Y/N):      N
   ANSI Level 2 (Y/N):      N
   ANSI Level 3 (Y/N):      N

 Terminal (Y/N):            N

 PostScript (Y/N):          Y

 TEK4014 (Y/N):             N
 ReGIS (Y/N):               N

 Check Function:

> Now what happens is that all revisable documents (Post or ASCII) are
> printed, without any print level check!

I'm not sure what you mean by 'revisable documents (Post or ASCII)' because 
Post is final form.

When you are printing revisable documents (that is those that have to be 
formatted) it is the device type in the Print Style which is used to 
perform the print level check.

The Printer Destination entry RFS_POSTSCRIPT has the Format Print Style set
to PS.  This means that when you print revisable documents to
RFS_POSTSCRIPT they will by default be formatted to PostScript.  The Print
Level checking will allow these PostScript final-form files to be printed
to a destination which only accepts PostScript. 

If you were to print to RFS_POSTSCRIPT and select a different Print Style, 
for example LN03, you should find that the print operation is not allowed.  
This is because you are saying that you want the revisable documents to be
formatted to LN03 but the print level checking will not allow you to print 
LN03 files to a destination which only accepts PostScript.


> Printing final documents, the print level check is correctly performed, 
> and only PS documents are printed!

Good - this means it's working and preventing you from printing final 
formats other than PostScript.


> I understood that the revisable documents are those not formatted.
> Is it correct?

This is correct.  Revisable documents have to be formatted in order to be 
printed.


> Is the print level check applicable only to the final documents?

No.  

The important difference is that when printing revisable documents you can
print them to all the types of printers that the formatter supports.  For
example, WPS-PLUS documents can printed to PostScript, LN03, DEClaser,
LA70, LP11 any many other types of printers because the WPS-PLUS formatter 
supports all these types of printers.  When printing revisable documents
you much less likely to find that they cannot be printed to the selected
destination. 

When printing final-form documents you have to select a printer destination 
which supports the format of the document.  Therefore the types of printers
that you can select will be fewer, and could be a single type.  For 
example, PostScript final form documents should only be printed to 
PostScript printers.  

For ANSI printers the options can be wider.  You can print simple LP11 files
on an LN03 but you should not print LN03 files on an LP11.  The Print Level
checking system handles these types of situations.


> Sorry but I'm a little bit confused!!

I hope this helps but keep asking questions if you need to.


Richard