Re: Printer 6400 - any good? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Dave,

One of the companies that I work with has a 6400 with the IPDS feature. Can't remember which model. They produce approx. 50,000 statements per month along with 1,000+ page reports (daily) and this printer has worked without a hitch for several years now. All in draft mode.

They use the IPDS feature for printing postnet bar codes.

I have no experience with a 6262, but remember a 5262? that was a band printer? You changed bands to gain characters (like lower case) but the speed was cut due to the number of times a given letter would appear on the band. They had that on their S/36.

I believe that the 6400 prints a letter then offsets about half a pixel and prints again to create nlq which is reflected in slower output.

Oh, almost forgot to mention, when they moved from twinax to cat wiring they left the system console and high speed printers as twinax.

hth
J. Kilgore

Dave Mahadevan wrote:

Folks:

I am thinking of replacing a IBM 6262-12 with a IBM 6400 (12,14,15 or 20). Any pleasant memories/horror stories on this printer?

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