We have an old Genicom 930 line printer (really just a rebranded Okidata). It's connected to our System i with a parallel port to twinax converter box/pigtail thingy (yes, that's the correct technical term - thingy!).
We use this to print our multi-part BOL forms.
I would love to modernize this with a laser printer and NCR paper, but I don't have upper management or user support to do so.
The problem with the current setup is that quite often the communications get hosed and the writer on the i reports it as a hardware failure. It usually takes several power cycles of both the printer and the converter box, plus varying on/off the device to get it to work again.
Since I can't currently switch this to a laser, I was wondering if there was an Ethernet based line printer that would well with the i. Any recommendations?
Does anyone have any advice or similar experiences to share?
Thanks
Bob Cagle
IT Manager
Lynk
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