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    Printing: High-Volume Solutions from Printronix
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12/14/90
12/14/90
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    My company does high-volume printing (about 50,000 pages a month). Do you have
    a solution fthat can handle this volume? The printer should be a 300 to 400
    lpm printer. Can you help?

DISCUSSION

    We have seen Printronix P300-XQ and P600-XQ line printers working with
    Macintosh computers. This particular configuration used a serial-to-parallel
    converter to attach the Macintosh serial port to the parallel port of the
    Printronix. An ImageWriter driver with "Draft" selected was used as the
    printer driver. Again, this is not a support solution although it seems to
    work.

    An alternative (although still unsupported) could include any mini/mainframe
    line printer that works with ASCII-based systems and a printer driver
    construction set, from DataPak Software, called Printer Interface II. Printer
    Interface II lets the user customize several aspects of the printer driver
    providing a method to send the correct printer control codes to the
    mini/mainframe line printer.

    The Printronix P300-XQ does 300 to 400 lpm. The Printronix P600-XQ does 600 to
    800 lpm. The lower numbers represent compressed printing; the higher numbers
    represent standard draft mode.

    For more details, search the Technical Info library under "Printronix" and
    "DataPak Software"



Document Information
Product Area: Printers
Category: Third-Party Printers
Sub Category: General Topics

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