Re: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400

[Chuck Lewis <CLEWIS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Carl !

I would be interested in talking with them to see what they were doing with 
them,
pro's and con's and of course price :-)

Chuck

Carl Galgano wrote:

> Chuck:
> I have a client who just switched their HPs to TCP/IP and have several
> twinax cards for HP printers.  Perhaps they may be interested in selling
> some/all of these.  Let me know if you are interested and i can put you in
> touch.
> Carl
> Carl Galgano
> EDI Consulting Services, Inc.
> http://cgalgano.home.mindspring.com
> mailto://cgalgano@ediconsulting.com
> (770) 422-2995
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: eric <eric@norcov.com>
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com' <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
> Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 1:31 PM
> Subject: RE: Attaching HP Laser Printers to the AS/400
>
> |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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