Re: IPDS Printing

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

One piece of information that I learned, quite by accident, is that HP 
printers do things that no other brands do.  I believe it is because IBM 
chose to use the HP Printer language, and therefore HP Printers 
understand the IBM print stream natively.

Let me add a disclaimer:  I have no clear understanding of what I have 
just said.  I discovered, by accident, that my HP PC Printer will print 
stuff that other printers won't.



EThompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am a little confused. In the past, to use overlays or special fonts in 
> printing, we always had to use IPDS compatible printers. Lexmark printers 
> have IBM PPDS compatibility built in, but they charge almost $600 
> additional for an IPDS/SCS card. I can't find an IPDS card for HP printers 
> with the company we buy from. Does anyone know if the IPDS card is 
> required for Lexmark/HP printers? Does HP allow IPDS printing? I haven't 
> had to buy printers in several years but am trying to find a decent 
> quality printer that will duplex and allow IPDS printing from the i5 that 
> doesn't cost $1700/ea. It doesn't have to be high capacity 
> 500-1000pp/week. Does anyone have any suggestions? 
>
> I am trying to move things from line printers to laser but if they have to 
> buy 8 new printers for $14000.00 + shipping, I think that is going to be 
> hard to get them to do even though the savings longterm on not having to 
> have pre-printed forms etc will outweigh the initial outlay in a couple of 
> years.
>
> Thanks
>
> Elonna Thompson
> Sr. Programmer/Analyst
> Mazak Corporation
> (859) 342-1713
>
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