IBM i Series

IBM Licensed Programs: Printing and Document Handling Products
732 iSeries Handbook
IBM Advanced DBCS Printer Support for iSeries (5722-AP1)
Advanced DBCS Printer Support for iSeries is a set of the following utilities:
• Advanced Print Writer (APW)
• Advanced Page Printer Writer (APPW)
• Kanji Print Function (KPF)
• Printer Function Control (PFC)
• System/36 Resource Migration
The difference in these utilities is the supported printers and the print functions described in
the following sections.
APW
The printers supported include DBCS line impact printers (54xx, 5317. 5327), PC printers
(557x, 558x), and AFP printers.
Note: 5769-AP1 option 1 is required to print on AFP DBCS printers.
The print functions include:
• Characters per inch (CPI): 10, 12, 13.4, 15, and 18
• IGCCPI (DBCS characters per inch): 5, 6, 6.7, and 7.5
• Lines per inch (LPI): 4, 6, 7.5, and 8
• Character magnification: 1/2Hx1/2V, 1Hx2V, 2Hx1V, 2Hx2V, 2Hx4V, 4Hx2V, 4Hx4V, and
3Hx3V
• Grid line: Thin solid, thick solid, pair solid, thin dotted, bold dotted, and pair thin dotted
• Character rotation
• Barcode
• Superscript and subscript
• Shade
• User-defined dot pattern image
• SBCS font selection
IBM Advanced DBCS Printer Support for iSeries
Product number 5722-AP1
Replaces product None
Minimum OS/400 level V5R1
Installation prerequisites None
Related products None