USPS Form 2976 and filePro

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005, Bill Vermillion wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 12 16:32 , while denying his reply is spam, Bill Campbell 
...
>> If you're doing large numbers of forms, there are some
>> industrial strength dot matrix printers available from genicom,
>> Tally (nee Mannesmann Tally), and others. Expect industrial
>> strength pricing as well. One thing I like particularly about
>> the Tally printers is that they use ANSI escape sequences for
>> printer control instead of character strings that may well
>> interfere with terminals doing pass-through printing.
>
>I'd like to think that you'd really not have to perform pass-thru
>printing to one of those printers.  Considering their cost an extra
>serial line would probalby be cheaper in the long run.

True enough, although ``back in the day'' I had some of these on
dumb terminals.

Now most of the serious printers we install are connected to the network,
not to individual computers (I don't consider splatjet printers serious).

Bill
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