Re: AS/400 & Digital Copiers as Printers Questions...

Hi Mark,

DUH and thanks for the reply - I just NOW saw it - I have GOT to get this e-mail
deal in order !!!

It would be NICE if there were a way to set e-mail up to monitor for response
from important query messages - I TRY to keep an eye out obviously, but 
obviously
I miss from time to time !

How exactly do you have this copiers hooked up to the AS/400 ? I "assume" a
parallel connection to the or some convertor box or something ? Or is the AS/400
on the network and you see them that way ? Did Danka not put you in touch with
Konica's network support people ? They have a WHOLE group that does nothing but 
-
and they know about the AS/400 (it's on there "what do you have/what to you want
to do" survey...).

Also - did you do a cost justification on these digital copiers ?

We just "stumbled" across a "show stopper" as far as that goes. All the copier
folks we have been talking to are quoting this per page figure. We are currently
using an HP 5si for printing around 1500 Invoices a day and 3200 Statements a
month. We are putting a pre-printed form (one for each) in the printer so there
is virtually NOTHING getting printed except for "plain text" and toner 
cartridges
are lasting around 2 months !!! If we compare our "per page" figure to theirs,
there is NO comparison; we KILL them. This has REALLY hurt us being able to sell
this as a replacement to the HP 5si (I know the 7060 does more and is faster,
etc. :-) ). It seems that whatever figure the copier folks are using for per 
page
is based on a "saturation" figure we don't come CLOSE to. Seems it must be based
on a lot of graphics printing...

Thanks for any info you can provide !

(and I have 4 kids - can you get me a good deal on toys <BG> ?)

Chuck

"Allen, Mark" wrote:

> We have 5 Konica 7060 digital copiers attached to our network that are
> accessible as printers from both our NT network and the AS/400.  They are
> remote writers on the AS/400.  Had to kinda stumble through the 400 setup as
> the manual was not real helpful and Danka (who we got copiers from) had
> never installed on AS/400 but they knew it could be done (the manual said
> so!!!).  The only issue is that somtimes the print jobs from the 400 seem to
> hang (i.e. the 400 print goes to SND status and hangs).  We just reboot the
> attached controller (i.e. a PC) and it goes on just fine.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:CLEWIS@IQUEST.NET]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 1999 6:54 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: AS/400 & Digital Copiers as Printers Questions...
>
> Hi Folks !
>
> We have one of those "mombo" Xerox copiers that is JUST about at the end
> of the road. Still works but Xerox drops maintenance on it this
> September 1 (must be a Y2K thing <BG>...
>
> Sooo, we've been looking at digital copiers with the requirement that
> they be able to interface with the AS/400 and PC's (no network YET but
> coming latter this year...).
>
> Anyone doing this and have any comments pro or con ?
>
> i.e.
>
> - How are you doing the connection ?
> - Does it "behave well"/interface well with the AS/400 ?
> - Can the AS/400 manage it effectively ?
>
> etc.
>
> TIA !
>
> Chuck
>
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