Specific printer situation advice

[Darrell A Martin <DMartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings:

I have a Zebra TLP 2844-Z thermal label printer with 36-pin Centronix 
parallel and 9-pin serial connection ports. It will be used to print 
labels using TL Ashford's Barcode/400 software ver. 2.7 running in OS/400 
V5R2M0 with PTFs woefully outdated.

The printer will be in a satellite warehouse. The PC already there 
connects via 56k modem, using Wintronix 5250 emulation. I can install 
iSeries Access and/or Win XP. Our existing thermal label printers are all 
connected directly to the AS/400 via ethernet with baluns, "twinax" to the 
system. So, I don't have a similarly configured printer I can "clone."

Anybody doing something similar? Of all the alphabet soup of methods for 
connecting to that printer under the stated conditions, what do you use or 
what would anybody recommend? I can figure out the details, if I have an 
idea where to START.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  754-2187
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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