Re: Win '98 and my 3116 printer won't handle it!

At 09:04 PM 6/30/99 -0500, you wrote:

There's no reason to buy a token ring card, I could do everything I wanted 
to do via the twin-ax card, but I would not gain the benefit of the 
performance of a direct connection.  My problem with Lexmark is that they 
do not supply new drivers for new operating systems.  If they do not 
resolve this question, I will never buy another IBM (or IBM 
related/spun-off/OEMed) printer again.

Al


>Al,
>
>So this printer ISN'T on your LAN (you could get a T/R card for it when it 
>first
>came out) ? We I "used to work" I had it on our LAN AND on our AS/400... 
>Worked
>fine that way...
>
>Chuck
>
>"Al Barsa, Jr." wrote:
>
> > At 04:22 PM 6/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > >Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:
> > > >
> > > > At 09:54 AM 6/30/99 -0700, you wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Specifically, it is attached to the 400 via twin-ax, and to my PC
> > > > parallel.  There are no new drivers for Win '98, and the CE's tell 
> us that
> > > > the only way to make it work is to physically turn it off/on after each
> > > > re-boot of the PC.
> > >
> > >Since this is a older printer... have you ever had it working as
> > >described,
> > >and what has changed.. just W/98 ???? Will it work as a twinax attached
> > >printer ??? Will it work as a PC printer if NOT attached to 400 ???
> > In the past few days, we've tried every driver under the sun.
> >
> > Yes, I could get it to work through the AS/400, as the PC is also connected
> > to our token ring, but the performance would not be as good.  By hooking it
> > directly to the PC, I get good performance.  I also have use of it when the
> > 400 is down (eg: SAVSYS, new release [I do more of these than most other
> > people].)
> >
> > Al
> >
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Al Barsa, Jr. - Account for Midrange-L
Barsa Consulting, LLC.  
400 > 390

Phone:  914-251-1234
Fax:            914-251-9406
http://www.barsaconsulting.com
http://www.taatool.com

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