82162a HP-IL thermal printer success
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11-01-2016, 09:41 AM
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82162a HP-IL thermal printer success
Hi all,
I'm just curious to know whether the HP-IL printer was sucessful over the directy connected 82143a. It seems to me that: 1/The 82162a was significantly more expensive, let alone the fact that you had to buy the HP-IL interface if you did not already owned it for some other purposes (e.g. tape drive). 2/The selling points over the 82143a seems a bit weak: - a new format (FMT) instruction to either center test or left/right justify two colums of text - was this feature really a killer one ? - a parse/non-parse mode to avoid word cutting (but even at the time, certainly an HP-41 + 24-column printer was not exactly a state-of-the-art word processing system, so what for ?); - the ability for print barcode was certainly more appealing, but I understand that it was quite tidious to get this to work; - A standby mode (certainly convenient); - the fact that it would use only one port for both tape drive (or whatever peripheral) + printer instead of two. Were users really convinced by this product ? Did they stick to their good old 82143a if they already had one ? or even, did choose to buy a new 82143a rather than the more expensive (and little added value) 82162a ? Thanks a lot in advance for your answers, Best regards, Vincent |
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82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Vincent Weber - 11-01-2016 09:41 AM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - hth - 11-01-2016, 04:14 PM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - rprosperi - 11-01-2016, 11:06 PM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Garth Wilson - 11-01-2016, 06:59 PM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Sylvain Cote - 11-02-2016, 02:09 AM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Vincent Weber - 11-02-2016, 12:39 PM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Garth Wilson - 11-02-2016, 09:37 PM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Sylvain Cote - 11-03-2016, 12:51 AM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - 4ster - 11-02-2016, 01:18 PM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Vincent Weber - 11-04-2016, 08:55 AM
RE: 82162a HP-IL thermal printer success - Hans Brueggemann - 11-05-2016, 08:43 PM
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