Benefits of PrintDirect Support

The benefits provided by the TCP/IP PrintDirect support can be summarized as follows:

End users have full control of printing on TCP/IP-attached printers.
End users can monitor the printing progress by the number of pages printed.
Printer commands like forward-space, backspace, interrupt, and cancel are fully supported on TCP/IP-attached printers.
Check-pointing and restart from checkpoint after interruption are supported.
No secondary spooling occurs on the receiving side; print data goes directly to the printer.
Uniform printing support is provided for VTAM-, PSF-, and TCP/IP-attached printers.
Provides simple, automatic formatting of text print files
Provides bi-directional TCP/IP PrintDirect support