InfoPrint 6500 Line Printers

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IBM InfoPrint 6500 Line Matrix Family
State-of-the-art print engine and controller technology helps you keep up with the demands of back office and/or data processing applications.

6500 Printer Models -

Quiet Cabinet or Pedestal (contains "P")

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High Speed Impact Printing - Highly Reliable Line Matrix Printers

GLM Group provides IBM InfoPrint 6500 industrial printers for rugged environments  (manufacturing, distribution, retail, transportation) that are built to excel in demanding situations.  These are built upon the reliable legacy machines known as the IBM 6400 family of line printers. These now are supplied by Ricoh InfoPrint Solutions, a Ricoh family company with the legacy support learned at IBM.

" If trucks don't roll -- Heads do !!! "  - a customer quote.

If your business is dependent upon on-time printouts from your printers, the InfoPrint 6500 line printers can be relied upon for your day-to-day operations. Whether in the office or in tough industrial environments, place these printers at the point of need and you can experience quiet operation, flexible media handling, and easy-to-use controls and menus that minimize user intervention. You can also implement powerful remote management capabilities to reduce administrative and maintenance costs. 

InfoPrint 6500 Line Printers - The InfoPrint 6500 printers attach to a wide spectrum of IBM systems — from IBM mainframes and parallel servers to PCs. The new Models v5P, v05, v1P, v10, v15, and v20 offer:

• Print speeds up to 2,000 lines per minute
• High-function operator interface

• Ultra Capacity 50 M character ribbon

• New cabinet and pedestal designs

• Intelligent ribbon system

• Proactive printer monitoring with the IBM Printer Management Utility (PMU)

• High-performance Windows Printer Drivers

• Faster installation with the new Quick Setup Menu

• PowerPC^® control unit for improved processing

• Improved product structure

• Attachment via wireless Ethernet, LAN Ethernet, ASCII, coax, or twinax interfaces

Overview - The InfoPrint^® 6500 Models v5P, v05, v1P, v10, v15, and v20 are feature-rich impact printers that offer:

• Print speeds up to 2,000 lines per minute (lpm) for demanding industrial printing applications

• A newly designed high-function operator interface

• A new Ultra Capacity ribbon with a 50 million character life

• Next generation cabinet and pedestal designs for increased appeal and user friendliness

• An intelligent ribbon system designed to maintain optimum print quality

• Proactive printer monitoring with the IBM Printer Management Utility

• High-performance Windows™ Printer Drivers

• Easier installation with the new Quick Setup Menu

• A faster printer control unit for improved processing of bar codes, graphics, and overlays

• A simplified product feature structure for ease of ordering

These IBM InfoPrint 6500 models v5P, v05, v1P, v10, v15, and v20 are extremely versatile, cost-effective printers. They can be attached via Ethernet, wireless Ethernet, Telnet, ASCII, coax, or twinax to such diverse hosts as the IBM iSeries™, zSeries^®, and pSeries^® servers, IBM PC and Netfinity^® servers, IBM-compatible PCs, non-IBM systems supporting the ASCII serial or parallel interface, and LANs.

Optional features include:

• A Wireless Ethernet option that offers wireless connectivity to the LAN

• Telnet 3270e and Telnet 5250e to allow present coax SCS and twinax SCS users to migrate to a network without changing the application

• American National Standards Institute (ANSI) 3.64 emulation

• An optional Pullout Paper Tray that provides a more convenient method to remove printed output from the printer

• An integrated InfoPrint 6500 Ethernet 10/100BaseT Adapter

• IBM coax and twinax attachment

• IBM Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (IPDS™) support for coax, twinax, wireless Ethernet, or LAN Ethernet attachments

• Intelligent Graphics Processor (IGP) or Code V for graphics and bar code applications

• A Power Stacker on selected cabinet models to increase paper stacking reliability and control

Key Prerequisites - Wireless Ethernet, LAN Ethernet, coax, twinax, and ASCII attachments allow the IBM InfoPrint 6500 to be used on virtually all IBM, as well as many non-IBM, platforms.

InfoPrint 6500 family - The IBM InfoPrint 6500 family has models with maximum print speeds from 500 to 2,000 lpm, and with an array of features that can be used to customize the printer for many applications and attachments. The breadth of the InfoPrint 6500 family offers common features across the range of printer speeds.

IBM Printer Management Utility - When ordered with one of the following LAN or wireless Ethernet interfaces (#4177, #5180, #4542, #4544, or #4545), the InfoPrint 6500 natively supports the IBM Printer Management Utility (PMU). This utility provides a database from which the user can have real-time visibility to printer status and ribbon life for every InfoPrint 6500 and 6700 installed on their network.

Using the database, a remote user can quickly create master configurations, and then download them to multiple printers simultaneously. If microcode updates are required, the PMU also enables new microcode to easily be downloaded to multiple printers. If a simple configuration change is required, or for problem determination, the PMU allows the use of a virtual operator panel, thereby providing the operator with complete control over the printer.

The Print Management Utility also provides proactive printer monitoring by immediately notifying the appropriate operators when assistance is required. At the moment an alert occurs, a message indicating the type of alert is sent via e-mail to the specific operator tasked with resolving that class of alert. For example, when a "ribbon low" alert is generated by a printer, an e-mail will be sent to the person responsible for installing new ribbons on the printer.

The IBM Printer Management Utility can be downloaded by going to

http://www.printers.ibm.com

Choose "Downloads and Drivers" and then "InfoPrint 6500."

Intelligent Ribbon System and Ultra Capacity Ribbons - The new customer-replaceable Ultra Capacity 50 M character ribbon, in conjunction with the capabilities of the printer and the Printer Management Utility, delivers the following unique benefits:

• The ability for the operator to use a standard printer feature called Ribbon Minder, which allows the operator to specify a desired ribbon life end point

• Help in eliminating costly reprints and unacceptable output by taking advantage of the InfoPrint 6500's Intelligent Ribbon System, which enables the printer to stop printing and alert the appropriate operator when a new ribbon is needed, and then automatically detect when a new ribbon is installed, and reset Ribbon Minder accordingly
• Optimization for report printing, text printing, bar code label printing, and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) printing

Operational commonality - You can operate the InfoPrint 6500 Models v5P, v05, v1P, v10, v15, and v20 in much the same way as the previous IBM 6400 models. These models demonstrate a commonality in areas such as loading and unloading of forms, and the availability of coax, twinax, Ethernet, Code V, IGP, IPDS, Proprinter III XL, Epson FX 1050, Printronix P-Series, and Printronix P-Series XQ Variant emulations.