I've purchased many Prodigy DataMax label printers (4x6 UPS or smaller) from Ebay for around $80-$150 each over the last few years. The replacement heads alone are $280 new.
The PCL (sic) is pretty straightforward. It isn't WYSIWYG but debugable. These printers have all the bar code fonts contained. They all have many helvetica-style fonts and sizes. Complete orientation, sizing etc. They are usually serial. There are thermal and ink-based labels. If it's temperature sensitive (either hot or cold) don't use thermal as they fade in time. If they're shipping, thermal is fine. my 1 cent. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karjala Koponen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 1:05 PM Subject: Label printers on AIX and/or Solaris Hello, I'm running UniData 5.2.15 on AIX 4.3.2 but will be going to UniData 6.0.9 on Solaris 2.8. We have two stand alone Epson LX300+ 9 pin dot matrix printers we use to print labels. They are defined as generic (ASCII) devices. The printers are old and the output is acceptable, at best. I'd like to replace the printers with label printers that will print on peel off labels of roll stock. These printers generally come with Windows drivers but Unix drivers seem to be lacking. Some of the higher end printers come with a programming manual that would allow me to write code to send control sequences to the printer and control everything. I've done that before but I'd rather not take the time to do that if I can simply attach a printer, either to the network or a serial connection, load a driver and create a queue, and then simply send my few lines of text to the print queue and get a label. Bar code would be nice but is not mandatory. I'm sure that we are just not looking in the right place or closely enough. We are not printing high volumes of labels so less expensive is better. Any suggestions? Thanks, Karjala -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
