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.