Re: IPDS Printing

One piece of information that I learned, quite by accident, is that HP printers do things that no other brands do. I believe it is because IBM chose to use the HP Printer language, and therefore HP Printers understand the IBM print stream natively.

Let me add a disclaimer: I have no clear understanding of what I have just said. I discovered, by accident, that my HP PC Printer will print stuff that other printers won't.



EThompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I am a little confused. In the past, to use overlays or special fonts in printing, we always had to use IPDS compatible printers. Lexmark printers have IBM PPDS compatibility built in, but they charge almost $600 additional for an IPDS/SCS card. I can't find an IPDS card for HP printers with the company we buy from. Does anyone know if the IPDS card is required for Lexmark/HP printers? Does HP allow IPDS printing? I haven't had to buy printers in several years but am trying to find a decent quality printer that will duplex and allow IPDS printing from the i5 that doesn't cost $1700/ea. It doesn't have to be high capacity 500-1000pp/week. Does anyone have any suggestions?
I am trying to move things from line printers to laser but if they have to buy 8 new printers for $14000.00 + shipping, I think that is going to be hard to get them to do even though the savings longterm on not having to have pre-printed forms etc will outweigh the initial outlay in a couple of years.

Thanks

Elonna Thompson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Mazak Corporation
(859) 342-1713

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