Depending on the printer 19.2k baud is sufficient. However I am also
interested in the same thing. An engineer at the Atlanta Response Center
said he new of someone who had installed a parallel interface in a 256x
printer, hooked it to a Jetdirect print server and suggested that it
worked. He also said it wasn't supported.

David Copeland
JSI Data Systems Ltd.

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> Has anyone hooked up a HP256X line printer (parallel) to a network using
a
> HP Jetdirect EX print server?  If so, how was the printers throughput
> affected.  This is for a remote warehouse and I would hate to slow down a
> high speed line printer by limiting it to a serial connection at 19,200.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave Kallman
> See's Candies, Inc.
>