Printing & Archive

IMTerm supports two print workflows: Screen Print captures exactly what's on your terminal as a PDF. Host Printer Sessions intercept spool files sent by the AS/400 to a virtual printer, converting them to PDF automatically. Both are searchable in the Print Archive.

Part 1, Screen Print

Navigate to the screen you want to print

Screen Print captures the terminal exactly as displayed. Navigate to the screen, an order record, a report, a customer detail, that you want to archive or share.

What you should see: The target screen is fully loaded in the terminal, with all fields populated.

Open Print Setup

Click File > Print Setup… to configure the print options before printing.

What you should see: The Print Setup dialog with orientation (Portrait/Landscape), font size, CPI (characters per inch), LPI (lines per inch), and optional header and footer fields.

Configure orientation and font size

Choose Portrait for standard 80-column screens or Landscape for wide 132-column screens. Increase the font size for readability or decrease it to fit more content on one page. Optionally add a header (e.g. session name) and footer (e.g. page number or timestamp).

What you should see: The dialog reflects your choices. A preview thumbnail in the corner shows an approximation of the page layout.

Print to PDF

Click Print in the dialog, or close the dialog and press Ctrl+Shift+P. The browser's print dialog opens with the terminal content formatted as a document.

What you should see: The browser print dialog. Select "Save as PDF" as the destination. The preview shows the terminal screen with any header/footer you configured. Click Save to download the PDF.

Quick tip: Ctrl+Shift+P opens the print dialog directly without going through the menu, using your last Print Setup settings.

Part 2, Print Archive

Open the Print Archive

Click Tools > Spool Viewer… or look for the PRINT tab in the right panel. The archive lists all print jobs captured by IMTerm, both screen prints and host printer spool files.

What you should see: The Print Archive panel with a list of print jobs. Each row shows the job name, session, user, date/time, size (pages), and any compliance tags that have been applied.

Search archived print jobs

Use the search bar at the top of the PRINT tab to filter by session name, date range, user, or keyword. The archive supports full-text search of the captured document content.

What you should see: The list filters in real time as you type. Matching keywords are highlighted in the job name or document excerpt column.

Preview a print job

Click the Preview button (eye icon) on any archived job to open the PDF in a browser tab. The PDF contains the original terminal output, including colors if your print settings included them.

What you should see: The PDF opens in a new browser tab. You can zoom in, copy text, and download the file from the browser's built-in PDF viewer.

Add compliance tags

Click the Tag button (tag icon) on a job to add compliance labels such as "Approved", "Confidential", or a custom category. Tags are indexed and searchable.

What you should see: A tag-entry dialog. Type a tag name and press Enter. The tag appears as a coloured badge next to the job in the archive list. Tags are stored server-side and visible to all users with archive access.

Reprint a job

Click the Reprint button (printer icon) on any archived job to send it to the system printer again. Useful when a physical printer was unavailable when the job was first generated.

What you should see: A confirmation dialog ("Send to printer QSYSPRT?"). Confirm and the job is re-queued. The archive entry shows an updated "Last printed" timestamp.

Host printer sessions (advanced)

For automatic capture of AS/400 spool files, ask your administrator to set up a Printer session type in IMTerm's connection profile. IMTerm emulates a virtual 5250 printer device (DEVTYPE *IPDS or *SCS). When the AS/400 sends a spool file to that virtual printer, IMTerm converts it to PDF and stores it in the archive automatically, no manual print action required.

What you should see (when configured): Spool files generated by AS/400 batch jobs or interactive jobs appear in the Print Archive automatically, tagged with the generating job name, user, and queue. The sessions appear as "PRN" type in the status bar.