printer recommendation request

[daN baueR]

Yes on B&W only as well as single sided printing.  The server is old
but it is networked so the parallel interface won't be needed or
wanted. I forgot to mention we're also running Anzio PrintWizard but
I'll wait till I get the three bins working before I start on
overlays.  And yes the HP site is confusing as all hell.

Dan

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:55 PM, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:
>
> I recently went looking for a printer similarly configured for testing
> with Print Wizard, on a similar task. I ended up getting an HP Laserjet
> 4014n, and adding a duplexer, a stapler, and one additional input tray.
> For my testing, I'm using the manual feed slot for my third input, but it
> is possible to add another standard tray.
>
> This is a monochrome laser printer; I assume you don't need color. It can
> accept plain text, PCL-5, PCLXL (PCL-6), PostScript, and PDF directly.
>
> I found HP's website confusing, in part because it might branch you into a
> "home" track or a "small business" track, and the available data is not
> all the same. I ended up ordering from PCZones instead.
>
> For a SCO that old, you may have to consider interface options. Printers
> don't generally come with parallel interfaces, and I don't know if one is
> available.
>
> Using Print Wizard 4, currently in beta, I set up following input
> conditions:
>
> 1) Main input file is PCL-5, each invoice occurs only once, but file
> contains multiple invoices.
> 2) Overlay is a 3-page PCL-5 file.
> 3) Three paper colors, in three bins, as you describe.
> 4) Printing front-side only.
> 5) Placement of both overlay and main data adjusted slightly on the page.
>
> I succeeded in each of these scenarios:
>
> BURST: Print the entire job once on white paper, with overlay page 1, then
> once on pink paper with overlay page 2, then once on yellow paper with
> overlay 3.
>
> STAPLED SETS: Print page 1 on white with overlay page 1, page 1 on pink
> with overlay page 2, page 1 on yellow with overlay 3. Staple the set.
> Proceed to main page 2, etc.
>