Chapter 1. Printing on the AS/400 system

We can define and view printing in a simplified manner: something to print, a program to pass the information to a printer, and a printer (and some paper).

The same sentence translated into AS/400 printing terminology results in: An application creates a spooled file; the data is from the application and the spooled file attributes (page size, number of copies, default font, and so on) are from the printer file associated with the application. The spooled file is placed into an output queue; a print writer program then passes the spooled file to the printer to print it. The print writer also takes information from the printer device description. Figure 1 shows the basic AS/400 printing elements.