Printer Sessions (3270 and 5250)

From printer sessions, you can direct printing from a zSeries™, iSeries™, eServer™ i5, or System i5™ to a workstation printer.

Note: When you use a host application which prints to your workstation's LPT1, you must first select the printer in the Printer Setup dialog of the File menu.

Configure a printer session to designate a workstation printer as a system printer that will use either a Windows® printer driver or a printer definition table (PDT) provided with Z and I Emulator for Windows.

Use Windows® printer drivers for Z and I Emulator for Windows to print files based on printer setup parameters, such as scaling, duplex options, and page orientation, that you define in Printer Setup.
Use PDT files for Z and I Emulator for Windows to print files based on page setup information, such as control codes and the printer output format, defined in the PDT. You can customize PDTs to define your own controls, by editing the corresponding printer definition file (PDF) and converting it to a PDT.