Hi Gary!
 
On Monday, April 29, 1996, Gary Jackson wrote...
> Does anyone have experience with the LP series of printers from HP?  I
have
> a friend that has had some problems with theirs, but I also know that
> Printronix has made this model for a while.  Is anyone else buying
impact
> printers these days?
> Gary Jackson
> Nevada CSOS
> (916) 478-6407 - voice
> (916) 478-6410 - fax
>
 
"LP" series?  Are you referring to HP's Line Printers in general, such as
HP2563x's?  If so, then I may be able to help ya out.  I run a very
strictly HP "shop" and have many (150 or so) HP line printers connected in
various manners to the network.
 
I'm in the process of moving all these impact printers off the DTC's and
onto jetdirect connected Novell-based IPX networks via NBspool and
Flex/IP.  I'm about 70% completed with this (little?) project.  I do have
a couple printers connected also through jetdirects, but direct IP instead
of going through Flex/IP for some remote printing needs where there isn't
a host to manage the queue.  Then there's the old Gandolf printers... ah,
gandolf... a network that was too straight forward and reliable to compete
in today's "virtual" environments.  I even have two hp line printers
connected directly to regular dial-up modems.
 
I have a slew of old HP2934x printers in their last (3rd) year of
"obsolesence" that I started to replace with a printer recommended to me
by HP.  I needed a printer capable of 7-part forms, and zero tear-off,
they recommended the TI8920 printer.  If anyone else has received this
reco from HP as well... ummm...  how can I put this delicately...  they
suck!  I'm sure in pristene environments these TI printers would perform
well, but in a manufacturing setting (in the warehouse to be specific)
where the temp may drop to 40 degrees in the winter, these things just
shrivel up and die.  I've had nothing but headaches from these things, and
I'm now looking for ANOTHER replacement for these things.  It's a shame
too because the 2934's are/were tanks.
 
Oh well.. sorry for the tangent there.  If I can be of any assistance to
your "LP" printer situation, feel free to drop me a line.
 
 
 
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Scott Womer
 
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