According to Jeff Lindberg:
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> > I met with my HP Sales rep yesterday & learned that the new HP9X9
> > series do not offer HPIB support.  He also mentioned that in order
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> > Does anyone else out there find this to be a problem?
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> As it stands, I presume in order to support a high-speed printer like this
> on a 9x9 box one would have to (1) get some type of LAN <-> HPIB adapter
> (if, in fact, one exists); (2) purchase a 3rd party software product to
> provide LAN spooling.
>
> The LAN-based spooling product should act at least as well as the
> HPIB-connected printers do now, with regard to jam detection and recovery
> capability.
>
[Plug Alert for HP printers]
In so far as migrating an existing line printer, I agree with these concerns,
but to avoid misleading someone, I think it is fair to point out that there
are SCSI interfaces for the large line printers, so you can connect a high
speed printer to these new hp3000s with full support by the spooler, etc.
 
If a new printer is considered, then one of the new, high speed laser-quality
PCL printers might also be a good choice with SCSI connections.
 
Also, we need to consider that rs-232 connections can now be 38K with
new DTCs.
[end plug alert]
 
In so far as LAN based printing, I feel that HP should at least offer the
same level of support on MPE that comes with HPUX - but it would be more
in the sprit of MPE as a "value-added" O.S. to go beyond Unix even in
remote spooling.
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