Re: 5225 printer specs

[Douglas Handy <dhandy1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Avi,

>On todays term the speed is measured at pages per minute ppm.

Only for "page" printers, like a laser.  For the 5225 (a shuttle
dot-matrix I always called the "shake-and-bake"), you are better off
using the various lines per minute ratings.

For a given report, you need to take the average lines per page into
account and the LPM speed rating for the density you are printing to
achieve an approximate "ppm" rating.

With the 5225, this will vary *wildly* between printing things like
invoices vs 198-column width reports, single-spaced at 8 LPI.

The 5225 was a real work horse though.  I have a customer you bought a
5225-4 in Feb '82, and it served as their main system printer for a
S/34, a few S/36 upgrades, then a couple of AS/400's.  It was only
retired last year, but last I knew was still hooked up as an auxillary
printer.

Doug
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