The End of the Printronix L5535 and Toner # 703532-002

The L5000 laser line from Printronix has come to its eventual end. Printer Connection offers a variety of choices for these customers.  

If June 2011 was in the "Printronix Bar and Grill", they had L5000 "Last Call for Alcohol". Printronix told their customers that the last order for L5000 Drums and Developer Units to their supplier was going to really be their last order. The supplier would not manufacture any more replacement units. When a laser printer needs a drum for quality reasons, it has to get a new drum.  If they're no longer available, you are done with that machine's usefulness.

In June 2013, Printronix ended their stocking orders for toner, and the inventory of Printronix L5535 and other L5000 toner supplies vanished.  L5000 Printer Users are faced with some decisions they they need to make quickly. Will they continue to print continuous laser forms and labels with a printer machine from another vendor, or move that output to some other type of device, other media,  and other style of printer?

Options are available right now.

PCI's customer options for Continuous Forms laser printers can be reviewed at http://goo.gl/tzNccL.  A move to cut sheet printing can be handled with moving to Canon, Xerox, or Ricoh units. Thermal printer options are with Printronix up to 8 inches in width and with Sato for even wider output.

For more information, contact Warren Neeley at 817-939-5614 or WNeeley@PCIprinters.com

IPDS Printers for Mainframe and AS400 Print Requirments

As some of our customers have been saying: "InfoPrint IPDS Printers are Gone - Now What?"  Ricoh shut down the InfoPrint operations at the end of 2011, but we are still supplying IPDS printers for the needs of the AS 400 printing customers.

Lexmark MS810n with IPDS

Lexmark IPDS was the very same provided by InfoPrint, and still available from PCI. The same applies to the 4247 tabletop serial dot matrix built by Compuprint as the IBM InfoPrint 4247.

Printronix P8000 with IPDS

Printronix will not and cannot ship the same IPDS as on the IBM InfoPrint 6500 line printers due to a stupid contractual hang-up with IBM and Ricoh, but their IPDS is very good and they are absolutely committed to testing and resolving any issues with intense graphics. On the T5000 thermal barcode label printers, it's the very same code as was on the IBM 4400 and InfoPrint 6700 thermal units.

Dascom has committed time and resources by hiring one of InfoPrint's best IPDS industrial and office printing experts onto their serial dot matrix technical staff.  Dascom has a very good IPDS solution found on their Tally 4347 printers.


Canon Oce VarioPrint DP 135 with IPDS

Higher volume production printer vendors have worked to accommodate the IBM IPDS crowd, and PCI offers new options from the Canon / Oce merger and from Xerox.  Ricoh units are also available, and Printer Connection has a supply of refurbished IBM InfoPrint cutsheet units.  In continuous form pin-feed laser, choices are available from Sato and MicroPlex.

For more IPDS information, configurations and technical assistance, contact Warren Neeley at 817-939-5614 or WNeeley@PCIprinters.com or review his website at ChooseGLMgroup.com for IPDS AS400 Printing with Lexmark IPDS and Other Vendors.