Printing in another language

[userid3]

How do I print in another language from the AS400 to my LaserJet Pro 400 401dne.  I'm trying to print in Arabic.  How do I know if the printer is capable to printer in Arabic?  What needs to be installed on my computer to print in Arabic?  How can I validate if I need is already on my computer?  I was told I need to have the Arabic host code page and Arabic fonts installed on my printer.  Is that correct and if so how do I check if it it?

[John_Getzke]

Make whatever you want to print into an image. (PDF, PNG, JPEG, BMP, etc.)

Print the image.

This way the printer just sees an image and not a foreign font/language.  All you have to wory about is generating the document in the correct language.  If its supposed to be a text document then you will need to find and install a font file in the language that you intend to use.  Writing documents in foreign languages is not a subject that is covered in this forum.

[dansdaduk]

Some modern LaserJet devices do come with one or more built-in (printer-resident) fonts which support some of the Arabic symbol (character) sets.

I've no idea whether or not your LaserJet Pro 400 M401dne includes such fonts; try printing a PCL typeface (font) list from the printer (again, I don't know how to invoke this on this model) to find the list of resident fonts.

If the printer does include such fonts, it is likely that these will be:

• Naskh - fixed-pitch, PCL5 typeface identifier = 4124.
• Ryadh - proportionally-spaced, PCL5 typeface identifier = 4859.
• Koufi - fixed-pitch, PCL5 typeface identifier = 4264.

As well as the standard ASCII character set, these fonts probably support the following symbol sets:

• 8V - Arabic-8.
• 9V - Windows Latin/Arabic.
• 10V - PC-864 Latin/Arabic.
• 11N - ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic.

I know nothing about AS400, so have no idea how you'd go about selecting these fonts and symbol sets (assuming that your printer has them).

[syedumar1]

Hi,

as the issue is with Arabic printing please download the UPD ps driver and install them that will fix the issue. link for UPD PS driver as follows

Link : 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/swdetails/UPD/4157320/model/4157320/swItemId/ds-993...

I am an HP Employee

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[userid3]

I downloaded UPD ps and tried it.  Unfortunately didn't work.  The Arabic characters show as symbols.  Any other ideas?

[userid3]

Font file?  I'm not familiar with that.  Any idea where I would get that?  Does HP provide them for their own printers?

[dansdaduk]

Have you succeeded in printing a PCL typeface (font) list report from the printer yet?

I'm not familiar with your model of printer, so I don't know how to invoke this - there may be a front panel menu item to do it, or an item on the Embedded Web Server interface.

This report should show what PCL fonts are printer-resident - check to see if the list includes any of Naskh, Ryadh or Koufi ( each of which supports several different Arabic character sets).

Even if the fonts are there, whether they can be easily selected may depend on your application and/or printer driver.

[userid3]

In the PCL listing, I have Naskh and Koufi but not Ryadh.  Do I need Ryadh and how do I get it?

[userid3]

dansdaduk,

In the PCL list i show Naskh and Koufi only but still doesn't print the Arabic characters but rather symbols. 

[dansdaduk]

Your application (or your printer driver, or whatever the AS400 equivalent is) have to include the relevant font selection sequence, at the appropriate point(s),  in the generated print jobs.

Assuming that the print jobs generated are using the PCL5 Page Description Language, the font selection sequence would include the required symbol (character) set identifier, and the typeface identifier.

For example, for the Koufi font, at 8 characters-per-inch, using the ISO 8859-6 Latin/Arabic symbol set, the sequence would be:

<Esc>(11N<Esc>(s0p8h0s0b4264T

where <Esc> represents the (non-graphic) Escape control-code character (the character with decimal code 27, or hexadecimal 1B).

As i stated before, i have no knowledge of AS400, so have no idea if or how you can use this information.