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HEWLETT PACKARD PRINTER INTERFACES

The Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus or HPIB is known also by its standard number IEEE 488 and GPIB, its official name. These four-letter acronyms mean the following: HPIB (Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus)

The cables can go 20 meters at 1M per second (8,000,000 bps) and up to 15 devices can be attached. More than 2,000 different GPIB devices have been made by more than 200 companies. But, most companies today are moving on to other, higher speed standards. The market for GPIB products is stable. GPIB is most commonly found in research labs where engineers use it to collect data.

In the computer world, GPIB was primarily used by Hewlett-Packard in its minicomputers and early personal computers. Now, even Hewlett-Packard computer equipment no longer uses GPIB. Instead, most Hewlett-Packard printers come with standard parallel and serial interfaces and even a USB interface. Early Hewlett-Packard printers, and especially Hewlett-Packard's first inkjet cartridges printer the little DeskJet were designed with GPIB interfaces. Many marvelous plotters exist with GPIB interfaces. .


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