RE: Twinax printer over a network

["John McKee" <jmmckee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never knew the name.  Saw one in action.  Seemed pretty reliable.  Not noiseless, but pretty quiet, especially compared to a Xerox printer.  But, the cycle time was shorter than a Xerox.

John McKee

-----Original message-----
From: "Don" dr2@xxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:26:55 -0600
To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Twinax printer over a network

> They are called Farrington Machines...  They were noisy and jammed when you
> didn't want them to.  
>
> DR2
>
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> 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.
> > -- 
> > Chris Bipes
> > Director of Information Services
> > CrossCheck, Inc.
> >
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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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