USPS Form 2976 and filePro

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Wed, Jan 12 18:02 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Bill Campbell thus spake: 

> 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).

Don't paint all 'splatjets' with the same droplets.

That's like saying you don't like Ford's - but if I had a few
million laying around I'd love to have about a 1964 GT-40.

Take something like the big Cannons with 8 separate color
cartridges .   There are two blacks - glossy and matte - so you use
only 7.   But it does list for $2199.95.  But where else can you
get photo quality at 17"x22" in sheet form, or 17"x100ft - if your
software supports it.  That would make one long filePro report!!

It's not in the same category as the $69 printers - just as an
old Ford <insert cheap generic name> is not in the GT-40 class :-)

It was just 40 years ago that I watched those beasts at the
24 hour race at Daytona.  And when they were finished there were
holse in the fenders worn out from the inside by the sand being
thrown up from the inside.

They are testing there this week.  Paul Newman had a minor prang
and burned up one of his cars this past weekend.


-- 
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com