EBIBISI@UTMEM1.BITNET.UUCP (02/19/87)
Hi there,
Is anyone out there as confuesd as I am about DEC's strategy in
implementing printers that work with all-in-1? We have Rainbows,
DECmate 2&3's and IBM PC's with the recommended com s'ware. We have LQP02s
LN03s and LA210s attached to the DEC products, and Quietwriters and HP
Laser printers attached to the IBM products
The DECmates seem to work with all DEC combinations. The Rainbows seem to
have major problems with any DEC printer (we have the latest "field test"
version of the software). The IBM's are, at best, marginal with the printers.
Our Office Automation people tell me that *none* of the printer products
from DEC support *real* envelope feeding, and that the single sheet feeding is
only supported with the Letter quality printers (and since we have upgraded
to version 2.1 of all-in-1, the LQP02's seem not to work on queues) and
the only thing that seems to work well are the LN03's which have only one
paper tray and no envelope feeding device. Thes same people have used la75s
and see them as no alternative.
We are trying to ween these people from a IBM 5520 document processing
system, but the matter of the multiple paper trays and envelope feed is very
important to them. Are the printer product persons at DEC brain dead?
We are looking at the print server 40 (still no envelope
feed) and several 3rd party solutions. I would be interested to hear from
others that have gone this same route.
Thanks,
Edmund Bibisi
Manager, Networking/Data Communications
University of Tennessee Memphis
Department of Computer Science
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