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From: Charles_Kneifel@ncsu.edu (Charles L. Kneifel)
Subject: ethernet printers, appletalk, lpr
Reply-To: Charles_Kneifel@ncsu.edu (Charles L. Kneifel)
Organization: College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, NCSU
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:39:04 GMT

Hello,

	I have a question about usage of printers which are directly
connected to the network.  We are considering purchase of an
Apple LaserWriter IIg or a similar printer and are thinking 
about hooking it up directly to the network.  I am confused about
certain aspects of printer control. 

We have several different sorts of machines which will print to this printer.  
Macintoshes, SGI boxes, and IBM RS/6000 boxes.

What do we need on the unix boxes to print directly to the LW if it
is directly on the network?  I understand that one box must be the
master spooler, can we designate a secondary spooler in case the primary
spooler goes down?  I understand that one of the QMS printers can be 
loaded with an lpd server.  What about the macs in this situation.
The LWIIg will auto switch between inputs, is this true if we are
using ethernet and appletalk?  (i.e. can we printer from the macs
which already have local talk cabling, the macs using ethertalk, and
from the unix boxes without having to manually switch things around?)

If you are using a network printer in such a situation would you 
please let me know.  Answer to the net or privately by email.  I
will summarize and post at a later date.

Thanks,

Charley Kneifel
(Charles_Kneifel@ncsu.edu)



Charles L. Kneifel
(Charles_Kneifel@ncsu.edu)
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,alt.sys.sun,sci.electronics,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: graeme@transquest.oe.fau.edu (Graeme Rae)
Subject: Re: Problem Resetting Sparc Printers -ANSWERS!!
Reply-To: rae@sol.cse.fau.edu
Organization: Advanced Marine Systems Group 
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:56:58 GMT

Problem:
A flashing J5 light
Unable to recognise new toner

Solution:
Send the printer back to SUN!

This is a hardware fault with printers with s/n 365-1089-01 (all of
ours!)
SUN said they would replace the printers free of charge, even if the
warranty expired.

Thanks to _everybody_ who helped sort out this problem, particularly
Henry Bryant at SUN.


Graeme

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From: keithw@cs.uq.oz.au (Keith Whitwell)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: BJ10ex Opinions (It's probably an old question, but humour me)
Date: 19 Aug 92 02:01:04 GMT
Reply-To: keithw@cs.uq.oz.au

Suddenly, I have the opportunity to buy one of these at a fair discount, 
but I don't have the opportunity to inspect one, as it would be as a part of
a large purchase at my parent's workplace. 

So...  Waddartheylike?

Really I'm interested in any and all experiences with the printer, right down
to things like the quality of the print (I haven't seen it, but heck, I trust 
y'all).


Thanks a lot, 

Keith
keithw.cs.uq.oz.au
From: prpst2@pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: IIP memory problem solved!  :-)
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:09:53 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu

Hello all!

      I want to thank everyone who replied to my post about my memory
problem in my IIP.  As all of you guessed, the memory board simply was not
pushed in far enough.  I re-installed it after inspecting the board and
all is well!   <Boy is my face red!>

                                            thanks again to all!

                                                         Paul
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: problem printing Postscript from PC to NTR
From: Marco Simionato <simion@iveuncc.unive.it>
Date: 21 Aug 92 12:45:40 +0100
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Venezia
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1a2Lines: 22

Sorry for any cross-posting.

I have a 386 with DR DOS 6 connected to an Apple PLW NTR.
If I want to print Postscritp files with TYPE or COPY commands, I easily
get a "Not ready error while writing to device LPT1. Abort, Retry, Cancel"
(I translated back in English the Italian localized string). I think this
has
got something to do with port timeout. If I press R(etry) shortly after
the
message appears, the printing process proceeds normally. I can get
several
such messages, and I have to press R each time. If I don't, the printing
gets
aborted. Now, is this something I have to fix at DOS level or at the
printer
level? How can I set a longer timeout parameter? Or is this perhaps a
"native" 
NRT/DOS problem?

Please reply DIRECTLY to me. Thanks.

Marco Simionato
From: laukee@canon.co.uk (David Lau-Kee)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Canon CJ-10 color printer and Sparcstation 2
Date: 13 Aug 92 11:52:42 GMT
Reply-To: laukee@canon.co.uk
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

rkling@mipos2.intel.com (Ralph Kling) writes:
>I wonder if anybody has succeeded in connecting a Canon CJ-10
>color printer via its IPU computer (SCSI) interface to a Sparc-
>station 2 or similar BSD unix box. We have gotten such a printer
>recently but it came without much documentation on the SCSI port.
>Any help would be appreciated.

We did one for internal use (we drive it off an SS2).  If there is
sufficient interest, I'll investigate the possibility of making it
available on an as-is, unsupported, undocumented basis.

David
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: truong@news.cis.ohio-state.edu (hoa nhu truong)
Subject: Xerox 4020 color printer
Organization: The Ohio State University, Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 06:26:33 GMT

Hello netters,

I just came across a used xerox 4020 4-color inkjet printer, but have no
manual for it.  Just wonder if any netter have any kind of experience with
this printer, and would give me info on it.  I need to connect it to
either a mac or an ibm.  And also I see a lot of dip switchs on the back,
and something that look like either a scsi connector?!!!?   Could it be the
xerox 4020 is actually the tekcolor inkjet (my hope, obviously).  Any helps
would be appreciated.  Please reply to this account, as I don't log into this
net.comp.periphs.printers too often.  Thanks
From: k@hprnd.rose.hp.com (Steve Kao)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP-UX, Unix LaserJets, and Routers
Date: 18 Aug 92 15:08:28 GMT
Organization: HP Roseville Networks Division

Steve Kao (k@hprnd.rose.hp.com) wrote:
: You must configure both the "gw" and the "sm" parameters.  Without the
: "sm" parameter, the LaserJet will use the default subnet mask of 0.0.0.0
: and not recognize the "gw" parameter as having any meaning.

Ted Rypma responds:
> Is this true? Would a subnet mask of "0.0.0.0" not imply that the class mask
> should be applied to the destination IP address to determine whether or not
> to use the router ("gateway")? In this case, with the JetDirect card having
> a class C address, the applied mask would be the default of "255.255.255.0".
> The subnet mask would normally further extend the network part of the address.

Steve Kao responded:
> It is true.  Both the "gw" and "sm" parameters must be configured to
> allow the master spooler to be on the other side of the router.  If no
> subnet mask is specified (the "sm" parameter), the JetDirect card uses
> 0.0.0.0 as its subnet mask.  It has no class mask.  Afterall, how would
> the card know what its class mask would be?  Before it's configured, it
> doesn't even know what its IP address is, so how can it tell what class
> of IP address it's suppose to use?

The class mask can be determined from the card's configured IP address.
The "sm" parameter needs to be defined only if subnetting is being used
on the network.  If it is not being used, the "sm" parameter need not be
defined.

- Steve Kao
From: bei@dogface.austin.tx.us (Bob Izenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Unhappy with HP
Date: 14 Aug 92 13:53:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: dogface.1992Aug14.135355.27421
Followup-To: poster
Organization: The Fortress of Ultimate Dorkiness


	I have a situation in which I could use some help.  About a year ago,
I looked around for some better drivers for an HP Deskjet 500 under Ventura
Publisher.  HP and Ventura didn't know of any, but I ultimately found them
in some obscure file area on CompuServe.
	Now I need those files again.  If anyone reading this has pulled them
off of the Gem forum on CIS and wouldn't mind sending them along, please write
a note back to me.
	If they are already up for anonymous ftp somewhere (archie says no),
where are they?  If they're not, and there is interest, I'll put them up some-
where if I get them.
	By the way, I don't have much good to say about the responses that I've
gotten from HP and the publishers of Ventura on this question.  The drivers
have been out there for years, and yet neither company's support lines had any
idea of where to get them.  Wake up!  I know that you make these products
that do what I need to do, but I need them to interact.  If I'm lucky, the
blatantly sensational title to this article will attract the attention of
somebody at HP who has the answer right at their fingertips.  :-)

Bob
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Subject: Re: IIP memory problem   :-(
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 19:04:56 EDT

In article <@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
<4847@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP> prpst2@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Paul R Perdeus) writes:

>>	I am having a perplexing problem with my HP IIP....I installed a 4
>>MB board into my printer. ...generic mail order... it is NOT a HP board. 
>>...(self test)... says that there is only 512k memory (Base memory in IIP's)

>You don't have to do anything special; if the board works, it works.
>You really should have done the self test immediately upon installing
>the memory card, like they usually tell you to.

A _VERY_ common procedure is for clone board mfg's to ship a bare board to 
the mail order firm, then the mail order firms make their own little manual
to make the card look like it is their own, custom card...  When ordered, the
populate the card to the density you order. 1, 2, 3 or 4 MB. However, they
may forget to set the switches properly, and don't document the swithces,
hoping you will buy another card when you need/want another  1, 2, or 3 MB
(to make a max density of 4.5 MB for the II's & 5 MB for the III's).
If you don't get a memory error during power up, I'd wager a sum of money 
that the card is set for 0 MB installed, and the 2 little swithes are set
for either off off or on on.  Try moving the switches...  are there any ???

--
Al. Michielsen, Crouse Hinds School of Management, Syracuse University
 InterNet: amichiel@mailbox.syr.edu  amichiel@sunrise.acs.syr.edu
 Bitnet: AMICHIEL@SUNRISE
From: kentaro@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Wanted Appletalkboard for Image.II
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:23:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: kuhub.1992Aug21.112347.42480
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Anybody out there who knows/has a appletalk interface board for the
 ImagewriterII . If so please contact me at the  following

kentaro@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
kentaro@cadlab.engr.ukans
From: rdr@attics.rn.com (Dean Riddlebarger)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Looking for heavy-duty printing device...
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:17:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Ameritech Information Systems

I need to find a rather special printing device.  It may be laser,
ink-jet, plotter, or any other technology.  The output must be at a
minimum comparable to the quality one gets from an HP series III
laserjet (i.e. 300 DPI or higher).  The unit must be capable of
printing one page of no more than 250 characters of between 20 and
30 point height, and it must do so with a throughput rate of at
least five ppm.

Now, here's the catch:  The unit must be able to process a three-layer
paper "sandwich" where the total paper weight will be approximately
50-pound stock.  The two outer "wrapper" layers are necessary only if
the printing device uses a heat-based fusing assembly; the middle layer
will be preprinted with decorative "raised" ink, and straight exposure
to a fuser roller will melt the pre-print.

The IBM [Lexmark] can't handle this; it seriously crinkles the final
output.  The HP-III can't do it either; there's way too much streaking
after five or more samples have been printed.

Suggestions for heavy duty equipment would be greatly appreciated.
Please email.  We're messing with the newsfeed tuning and I'd hate
to miss any replies.  I'll summarize for the net after some answers
or suggestions come my way.

Thanks!

   
<*>  Dean Riddlebarger                   Once in a while              <*>
<*>  Ameritech Information Systems        You get shown the light,    <*>
<*>  rdr@attics.rn.com                   In the strangest of places   <*>
<*>  317-488-3067 (w)                     If you look at it right.    <*>
From: tswanson@misvax.mis.arizona.edu (QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODES.)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: WinJet 800:  request info/opinions...
Date: 13 Aug 92 21:14:00 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona MIS Department
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41


Just joined this news group and didn't see any posts on this product. 
Does anyone own the WinJet 800 HP LaserJet upgrade?  It's made by
LaserMaster and supposedly provides 800dpi, PostScript, direct print
manager, etc.  

Just curious on opinions of the product.  I own a LaserJet III w/ 3Mb.  I
don't have any PostScript products, though.  I also have a ScanMan 256 and
have printed with satisfactory results.  Does WinJet 800 offer a
significant improvement in photo images?  I've seen it listed at a few
places for about $690.  Reasonable price?  Better ways to go?

Any info is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ted.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Wet Paper (was: Re: HPIII Innacurate (Wobbly) Paper Feeding)
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 92 19:08:56 GMT

In article <92217.153937FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET> FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET writes:
[...]
>round your paper. You paper may have a tendency to adverse grain. ALSO, try
>fresh paper (maybe it's been in the sun and got dry on 1 side, 'onestly, this
>could seriously affect handling).

No lie.  I was having some terrible problems with jamming on my copier. 
Called my friend a copier tech who came over.  Told me (after wadding up
a sheet of paper) "It's your paper,  it wasn't stored properly, and/or
is old", and proceeded to run about 100 JAM free sheets of fresh paper
(his) thru the machine.

Thought he was crazy till he opened the side up and showed me the STEAM
comming off the fuser roller on my paper, and the lack of steam with
his. (fogged a mirror right up).

ALWAYS, store copier/laser paper in a cool DRY, DRY place, preferably
with a relative humidity of less than 40%.  Keep it rotated, and watch
out if you are noticing excessive curl on the output pages.
-- 
Keith Smith          uunet!ksmith!keith            5719 Archer Rd.
Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
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From: bboyko@cup.portal.com (Brent Eugene Boyko)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,alt.sys.sun,sci.electronics,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Problem Resetting Sparc Printers -More
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:41:32 GMT
  <1992Aug19.193642.7482@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

SUN put out an advisory on this problem about a year ago, if memory serves
me correctly.  It seems that a bug in the SPARCprinter firmware causes the
very problem you are experiencing.

All I had to do was call SUN and request the bug-fix for the problem and
they sent me a replacement printer.  If I find the paperwork that gives
the specific procedure to go through, I will post it, otherwise, you may want 
to contact your SUN rep.

Current production models have had this bug fixed, and the letter that they
sent me advising me that the problem existed gave a specific range of serial
numbers within which the problem fell.

Brent E. Boyko
Telecommunications Engineer
Loma Linda University Medical Center
bboyko@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: perni@bun.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de (Joerg Pernberg)
Subject: Cannon BJC-800 driver for Win3.1
Organization: /home/perni/.organization
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers
Date: 17 Aug 92 10:47:48

Hello,

I'm searching for a printer driver for the Cannon BJC800. The original
driver from Microsoft does not work fine. I'm not able to print to DIN A3
in the highest resolution and I cannot modify colors. 

Does anybody have a better driver, perhaps from Cannon. My dealer told me
that there is no other driver available.
Please post or send me an email.

Thanks to you

Joerg Pernberg
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: mortr@windmill.tulip.lmt.mn.org (Mort Rasmussen)
Subject: Re: Postscript level II support in Word 5.0/DOS
Organization: LaserMaster (Europe), Hoofddorp, Holland
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 05:27:26 GMT

In article <16840F481.RUSHING@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu> RUSHING@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu writes:
>   Someone informed me that Word 5.0 for DOS does not support
>PostScript level II.  Is this true?  Has anyone successfully
>printed to a Level II Postscript device using the Postscript
>drivers in Word 5?

Word doesn't support PS Level 2, but, but, but, It doesn't have to.
There isn't really anything in Level 2, that Word could have any use of.
Any program that can print to a Level 1 printer, can print to a Level 2 
printer.

You problem is very likely that you have to manually download the Word PS 
prologue file (POSTSCRP.INI usually). Otherwise you won't get any output.
So before printing from word copy the POSTSCRP.INI file to your printer.
You only have to do this once (everytime you restart the printer).

MortR
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Wet Paper (was: Re: HPIII Innacurate (Wobbly) Paper Feeding)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 18:39:23 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith) writes:
> 
> ALWAYS, store copier/laser paper in a cool DRY, DRY place, preferably
> with a relative humidity of less than 40%.  Keep it rotated, and watch
> out if you are noticing excessive curl on the output pages.
>
For those of you who don't use a lot of paper at a time, and live in a
humid climate, sealing the opened ream in tupperware helps keep excessive
moisture from getting into the paper.

Hmmmm, maybe I should send this to Hints from Heloise?
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: jarvis@psych.toronto.edu (Brian Jarvis)
Subject: HP IIIsi & Postscript Problem
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 16:09:30 GMT

I have an HP IIIsi equippped with 5 Mb of RAM, a TCP/IP card and Postscript.
It's connected to a Sun 4/380 running SunOS 4.1.2.

The software shipped with the printer and installed on the Sun should
cause the printer to switch from Postscript to HP mode automatically,
depending on the text it is receiving.  It does, kinda, sorta.  If the
printer is in HP mode by default, sending it a Postscript file causes
the printer to flip to PS for about one second and then drop back into
HP mode; the printer then prints the PS text instead of interpreting it.
When like this, the printer prints HP stuff just fine.

When the printer is in default Postscript mode, PS prints just fine, but
HP files cause it to flip into HP mode for about one second before it
flips back to Postscript mode and chokes trying to interpret HP codes.

Anyone have any ideas what options I should be looking at to fix this
problem?  Any tips, ideas or suggestions would be welcome.

Brian
-- 

Brian A. Jarvis,          Rm. 4026, Sidney Smith Hall, Dept. of Psychology,
jarvis@psych.toronto.edu  University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
System Administrator      M5S 1A1  (416) 978-3948
From: ken@cse.fau.edu (Kenneth Maier)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: IBM -> EPSON Escape Codes... dumb?
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:43:19 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA



We had an IBM Proprinter that broke so we bought an Epson LQ-570....

The Epson is a great little printer but I've got this big problem that
I was hoping someone could help me with.

There is this little BASIC program that prints these special forms...
It was written for the IBM printer but doesn't work for the Epson.

Three offending lines need to be changed:

630  LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(69);              'Set emphasized mode on printer
640  LPRINT CHR$(27);CHR$(71);              'Set double strike mode on printer
645  LPRINT CHR$(27);"A";CHR$(3);CHR$(27);"2";'Set 24 lines/in 1/4 line spacing


Actually, only line 645 is causing the problem (I think).... The Epson
escape command set doesn't support ESC-A which is "Set Text Line Spacing"
under the IBM escape set...

Here's what ESC - A does....

    Set Text Line Spacing (AGM)                  Hex |1B|41|
   
    ESC An

    Syntax:  ESC An    n = n/60in.


Ok... How can I get this in the Epson command set?



Can anyone help???


Thanks in advance!

-Ken
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From: root@igahp2.epfl.ch
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Advice on HP DeskJet C & Sun or HP Connection?
Date: 20 Aug 92 09:06:04 GMT
Reply-To: root@igahp2.epfl.ch ()
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

In article <1992Aug19.210157.11547@seas.gwu.edu>, sheryl@seas.gwu.edu (Sheryl Coppenger) writes:
> We're considering the purchase of an HP DeskJet C to attatch to a
> Sun3 or HP9000/835.  Currently we're using a PaintJet which has been
> a terrific printer, but we'd like higher resolution without the cost
> of Postscript.