I am in the process of setting up forced access codes and the SMDR system. I have been given a Hewlett Packard Thinkjet and am going to purchase the neccessary 355 Adapter and so forth. It seems hard to find paper and ink. I know that it needs to be a certain type of printer. Should I just purchase a new one and if so what would be a compatible one?
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I have had luck finding old dot matrix at goodwill and thrift shops. As long as the printer is has a Serial Interface and you can find the dip switch settings for the baud rate and so on... you are good. Over the past few years i have accumulated some nice little Okidata printers and hadn't paid more than about 10 bucks for any of them
Don
Don
stratagydk
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FYI, (since this is August and you first posted this in June, you may already know) SMDR output is SERIAL, so Parallel printer wont work.
Get a Serial printer, or send it to your COM port and collect it as Tab-Delimited data
Get a Serial printer, or send it to your COM port and collect it as Tab-Delimited data
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What kind of adapter would I need to send the smdr data to a com port on a computer?
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