On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 00:33 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/21/07 00:09, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Kevin Mark wrote: > >> I recall they are huge, requiring a lot of floor space and required a > >> noise cover otherwise you'd hear ear-splitting, griding noise. X-( > > > > Yup, yup and yup. Of course having to work on some model or another of > > green-bar printer for the past year-and-a-half lemme tell you, nothing > > better. > > You forgot to mention that once the top is down the modern models are > > extremely quiet and extremely fast. I'd like to see a laser printer crank > > out > > 500, triple-strike pages without jamming every few minutes. Hell, the > > lasers > > at my current job, even the large floor-space consuming office model, jam > > more > > often than the several green-bars we have combined. > > Really? Back in the late 80s, the company I worked for had some > Xerox 8700(???) printers (each fed by a 9-track tape drive and > controlled by a Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal) and remember how > durable they were. During tax season, they'd go thru dozens of > reams of paper per day without jamming. Of course, they were well > maintained... > > > Think of it this way: > > > > Laser - Windows, looks purdy, craps out all the time. > > Greenbar - Linux, klunky and not as pretty but gets the work done right. > > Linux driving a band printer? > > The last band printer I saw was connected to a VAXfarm back in 1991.
The best printer I have ever used for printing reams and reams of tractor feed... shuttle and pin printers. Mannesman-Tally using 661 printing coding. I don't recall the actual model, but it did a few thousand lines of print a minute. The only maintenance I need to do to the 15 year old printer was: cleaning and replacing the pins on the shuttle, which were in 8 pin packs. I printed to it via CUPS and a PPD. I mainly printed mailing labels for mailing labelers to put them on. sometimes it would go through 12 feet of folded fanfold paper in an 8 hour day. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at the playfield. -- Thane Walkup -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
