Re: Dot Matrix Printers

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@xxxxxxx>]

Paul

 We have connected a variety of printers via TCP/IP with Intel Netport print
servers.  The downside is that you can only use LPR/LPD support (which means no
page control amoung other things)  These boxes will connect up to two parallel
and one serial device each.

 HTH - Larry


PaulMmn wrote:
> 
> We are attempting to connect some Okidata/321 printers to our AS/400 via
> our LAN.  We would like to connect them using something similar to a
> JETdirect box for a laser printer (the JETdirect does NOT work with
> printers that don't know PCL5).
> 
> Is there an 'XXXdirect' box that will allow a standard parallel printer to
> directly attach to an IP address on the AS/400?
> 
> --Paul E Musselman
> PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com
> 

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