Re: Printer recommendations?

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've got an IBM 6400 line printer that's getting close to 20 years
old...can't recall it every breaking down (though I was gone for 10 years ;)

It's twinax IPDS, but the new ones are Ethernet IPDS.

I've also got various Printek dot matrix,  nice but not as fast or reliable
as our 6400.

Note that I'd recommend an IPDS printer, just going to be easier.

However, with a LAN attached IPDS printer you have to have Print
Service Facility for IBM i (PSF/i  aka PSF/400).  That's a chargeable
license program.

Charles


On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Justin Taylor <JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Our band printers are Printronix P7215, Ethernet-attached and configured
> as *IPDS.  We're satisfied with them.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cagle [mailto:bcagle@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 10:29 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Printer recommendations?
>
> We have an old Genicom 930 line printer (really just a rebranded
> Okidata).  It's connected to our System i with a parallel port to twinax
> converter box/pigtail thingy (yes, that's the correct technical term -
> thingy!).
>
> We use this to print our multi-part BOL forms.
>
> I would love to modernize this with a laser printer and NCR paper, but I
> don't have upper management or user support to do so.
>
> The problem with the current setup is that quite often the communications
> get hosed and the writer on the i reports it as a hardware failure.  It
> usually takes several power cycles of both the printer and the converter
> box, plus varying on/off the device to get it to work again.
>
> Since I can't currently switch this to a laser, I was wondering if there
> was an Ethernet based line printer that would well with the i.  Any
> recommendations?
>
> Does anyone have any advice or similar experiences to share?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Cagle
> IT Manager
> Lynk
>
>
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