Re: need label printer help

[Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio dot com>]

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Miriam Bobkoff wrote:

> Our very old label printer (an ALPS Allegro 500) is not
> compatible with the new XP machines which the city has finally
> delivered to Technical Services.
>
> Our environment: we are running Release 2002 phase 3. We telnet
> into the system using Anzio Lite. There is no immediate prospect
> that we will migrate to Millennium.
>
> We need to know what kind of label printer will work; preferably
> one that does not cost several thousand dollars so that we can
> afford to buy two.
>
> If you are printing labels from the text system on XP PCs, and
> can give up advice about what kind of printer will work with
> III, please let me know.

Although there may not be a driver for that printer, you should still be
able to use it at a very basic level with XP, with Anzio Lite. Try one of
the following:

1) Set Anzio's Print Level (in the File menu) to Raw. In Raw Setup, enter
the port name to which the printer is connected, such as "LPT1".

or

2) Install a Generic driver. Set Anzio's Print Level to Spooler. The
driver will not actually be used, but will serve to point to the correct
port.

With either of these approaches, the data will go transparently to the
printer.

If you do need to buy another printer, I can tell you that many libraries
use Okidata 320 Turbos.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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