Re: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400

Boy THIS is bad... Have a Black Box catalog sitting RIGHT here on my desk (JUST
ordered a crimp kit from them yesterday...) and TOTALLY spaced them. I'll check
it out, although I still hope to hear from folks using stuff for more
"mainstream" AS.400 vendors (so I am SURE they will understand what I need,
although I have used Black Box in the past for communications stuff and their
Tech Support has ALWAYS been excellent !!)

Thanks Eric !

Chuck

eric wrote:

> In the Black Box catalog there is are a few Twinax to ASCII converters.
>  They price between $895 to $2645.  It also looks like there are some
> twinax cards that you can buy for the lasers.
>
> HTH
>
> Eric Kempter
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Chuck Lewis [SMTP:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> Sent:   Friday, October 09, 1998 7:19 AM
> To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:        Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400
>
> Hi Folks !
>
> New job, new environment, not where it needs to be but will get there
> EVENTUALLY :-)
>
> Need to find a GOOD way to attach HP laser printers to the AS/400.
>
> We DO NOT have a network (yet) and we are NOT running TCP/IP (yet)  -
> was doing both of these at my last job and miss that here... - just have
> "good 'ole twinax" here...
>
> We have HP 4's, 5's and one BIG  HP 5 SI...
>
> We are using Decision Data  terminals (when they work...) and I have
> managed to attach any one of the above mentioned printers to a DD and
> get it to print, with mixed results...
>
> >>From there it gets murky. There are a TON of different parameters for
> printing to configure on the terminal and some are obvious choices, some
> are not.
>
> I'm wondering if it would just be easier to get the terminal out of the
> mix and "direct connect" these printers to the AS/400 and was wanting to
> know what others had done along these lines.
>
> Thanks in advance !
>
> Chuck
>
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