RE: Printer recommendations?

Our usage will be even less than 35 per day, so cost is a factor as well - management isn't going to want to spend more the $500-$1000. Limits me quite a bit.

Thanks
Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Winchester Terry
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:38 AM
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Subject: RE: Printer recommendations?

We use IBM 6500 printers for our 4-part BOL's.

These are setup as a *LAN connect, *IPDS printers.

They're pretty reliable...but we're only printing about 35 BOLs per day so YMMV.

Terry


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Cagle
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 11:29 AM
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Subject: Printer recommendations?

We have an old Genicom 930 line printer (really just a rebranded Okidata). It's connected to our System i with a parallel port to twinax converter box/pigtail thingy (yes, that's the correct technical term - thingy!).

We use this to print our multi-part BOL forms.

I would love to modernize this with a laser printer and NCR paper, but I don't have upper management or user support to do so.

The problem with the current setup is that quite often the communications get hosed and the writer on the i reports it as a hardware failure. It usually takes several power cycles of both the printer and the converter box, plus varying on/off the device to get it to work again.

Since I can't currently switch this to a laser, I was wondering if there was an Ethernet based line printer that would well with the i. Any recommendations?

Does anyone have any advice or similar experiences to share?

Thanks

Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk