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6400 Printer via Parallel?
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Published: 30 Nov 2011
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6400 Printer via Parallel? Published by: Viking on 30 Nov 2011 view comments(2)

Is it possible to configure an iSeries Access printer emulation session which supports IPDS?  We’re trying to get an old 6400-012 line printer to serve as an emergency backup printer and print via parallel port (because it's Twinax and we're now on a Power 7 which doesn't support Twinax) but when we try to create a printer emulation session the device that gets created is a 3812, not an *IPDS device.  If we try to create the device description first the session can’t connect saying the device is the wrong type.  If we try to create the device description first with a class of *VRT, type of *IPDS, model 0, and set the MFGTYPMDL to *IBM6400 we get the same error.  Even if we don’t set the MFGTYPMDL.  Are we trying to do something impossible or just doing something wrong?

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Posted by: DaleB
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Comment on: 6400 Printer via Parallel?
Posted: 11 years 5 months 26 days 17 hours 51 minutes ago

Haven't tried what you're describing, but there are other options. You should still be able to find LAN attached twinax controllers. We had one from Perle that worked great for years, and the only thing attached was a printer. Auto-configured as a remote workstation controller.

Posted by: Viking
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Comment on: 6400 Printer via Parallel?
Posted: 11 years 5 months 26 days 14 hours 18 minutes ago

Dale, BOS makes a controller, but it costs about $1000, and that seems like a lot to spend to keep outdated technology alive...  but if there aren't cheaper alternatives, then $1000 is still less than buying a new line printer, so I will consider that if I have to.