RE: Twinax printer over a network

["John McKee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Funny.  We used to have an embosser as well.  Got replaced with bar code wrist bands.  No idea what that will be replaced with Toetags??


-----Original message-----
From: Chris Bipes chris.bipes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 15:50:58 -0600
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Twinax printer over a network

> I used to work at a hospital that printed the plastic embossed credit cards as patient ID's.  They had a mag strip on the back and the print was embossed on the card.  Now that was a noisy printer, and by the way, it was interactive, not spooled.  I can remember the middle of the night calls, "My screen is frozen ..."  My response; "Is the card punch on line?"  Their response; "Yes!"   45 minute drive in to press the online button on the card printer.
>
> Loved the OT and mileage.  Oh and all of the twinax was over CAT 3 using a star panel and bayluns.
>
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> Chris Bipes
> Director of Information Services
> CrossCheck, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> We are scheduled to be off the i December of 2012.  It would be nice if that didn't happen.  That printer is used to print package labels with bar codes.  The "new and improved" system can't print bar codes at all.  Seems like a giant step backwards.  But, the decision was made by a corporate office.  They never looked at what is going on here - just knew it had to be replaced.  
>
> Not going to 7.1, obviously.  
>
> My experience with bar code printing has been such that we could have gotten away from this IPDS printer.  But, it was on hand, and had been used for quite some time.  People around here are amazed that a Xerox can print barcodes from the i.  Perhaps, if the sa who, years ago wrote the program that prints the bar code labels had been more interested in promoting the capabilities of the box, dumping it for what I would consider to be something inferior might have caused enough of an uproar that the misguided "upgrade" might have been shelved.  But, he felt that it wasn't worth his time.......
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