PRINTER type and PRINTER name

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/31/2010 11:06 AM, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> I am posting this because it needs to be documented for others.
[...]
> printer type (my_prttype{"")
> printer name (my_prtname{"")
>
> We were getting the wrong print codes.  Not the ones I issued in the
> PRINTER TYPE command, but the table associated with the printer name. It
> is easy to tell you this now but it took a bunch of paper and testing to
> narrow down what was going wrong.  Our projects started trying to print
> to an envelop bin in a funny font.
>
> Well my solution was simple, reverse the commands so it assigns the
> PRINTER TYPE after the PRINTER NAME.
[...]

PRINTER NAME looks up the printer by its name, and then sets both the type 
and destination.  (Remember, in pmaint, you have associated both a type and 
destination to the printer name.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody