RE: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400

Chuck,

Another company you may want to consider looking at is MPI Technologies.
They make a product called Blue Kit. We have used the Blue Kit for
direct twinax attachment of HP LaserJet 5si printers with very good
success.

They also sell an IPDS SIMM for the HP printers, so the device
description will show *IPDS instead of 3812. You can also continue to
use this IPDS SIMM once the printers are networked, so you don't lose
any of the IPDS functionality.

You can find their web site at http://www.mpitech.com .

Good luck to you!

David Boring
Systems Engineer
MCI Systemhouse
Direct: (562) 809-5460
E-mail: dboring@shl.com


-----Original Message-----
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 1998 10:19:03 -0400
From: Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET>
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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