Re: 5208 protocol coverter-Re: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400

Yes and no.  The protocol converer presents a serial interface similar to
the ASCII WSC.  I'm not sure if the HPs have a serial port and even if they
did, the performance would probably not be very good.  Also, in past
experiences, I have fould printing to ASCII devices to be a bit squirlly
(techinal term).
Just my 2 cents.
Carl Galgano
EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
http://cgalgano.home.mindspring.com
mailto://cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
(770) 422-2995

-----Original Message-----
From: david bulog <d2ba@xtra.co.nz>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 2:10 PM
Subject: 5208 protocol coverter-Re: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the
AS/400


|Would a 5208 protocol coverter do the trick,I picked up 14 of these boxs
|for $1 a piece.They can be found at brokers very cheaply.Before I
|realised what these boxs were ,the same company loaded a jumbo bin full
|of these and dumped them.Unfortunatly I could not save these :the next
|day they where gone and I just got the 14 that they didnt dump because
|of no room in the bin.
|
|Dave B
|
|
|
|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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