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From: tony@microware.co.uk (Tony Mountifield)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Multi paper-tray PS printer available?
Date: 8 Oct 92 12:12:38 GMT
Organization: Microware Systems (UK) Ltd., Winchester, UK.

In article <BvIGrt.BnE@olsen.ch> lichtin@olsen.ch (Martin Lichtin) writes:
> 
> I'm looking for a PostScript printer that handles more than one paper
> tray. How can one switch between the trays then? Assuming a Unix
> environment and the Transcript software, how can a user select a
> specific paper tray for printing? Thanks for some information.

There are a number of possibilities. We have used the NEC LC-890XL for a
couple years now - it has two paper trays. I like the look of the new
Compaq printers: the PageMarq 15 and 20. The 15 has two paper trays, and
the 20 has three. They have serial, parallel and network connections.

(I hope to budget for a 20 next year! :-)

Tony.
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From: was@gdwb.oz.au (Warren Stokes)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Toner Bottle Has a FUSE!
Date: 13 Oct 92 22:28:20 GMT

ken@cse.fau.edu (Kenneth Maier) writes:



>We've got a TI MicroLaser postscript printer which has one of those
>typical toner overflow bottles.   We just replaced the bottle last
>week and it seems the little sensor went off and it won't print anything
>until the overflow bottle is replaced.   This brought two questions
>up which I was hoping someone could answer:

>(1)  How does that little fuse-thingy work on the bottle?  Since the
>     fuse apparently blew and we don't have another bottle, I did a
>     no-no and taped a little wire across the fuse so it'll work 
>     anyway (short fix until we get a new bottle).   Other than risking
>     toner spilling all over the inside of the printer if we don't
>     watch the level, am I doing anything that'll break the printer?

Rather than tell you how the fuse thing works (I think I know!!), I have
some interesting technical information which came with my XL laser.
If you are sure that the toner bottle is not full, your can do the
following:

(Quoted from TI)

	1:	Turn off the printer
	2:	While pressing Select and Printer Setup at the same
		time, turn on the printer.  When the LCD displays PCU
		DIAG MODE, release both keys.
	3:	Press Up and Previous at the same time and continue
		pressing about five seconds until the LCD displays
		FUSE FLAG RESET then release both keys.`
	4:	Turn off the printer.
	5:	Turn on the printer.  You can resume normal operation.

This should be used with care.  If the bottle is dirty, you may get the
error back straight away.

>(2)  All the spill-off toner that appears in the bottle seems like
>     a waste.. (after all, it is in the waste bottle)...   Has anyone
>     else tried to dump this excess toner into another cartridge to
>     re-use it? 

Trust me.  It is not work playing with toner.

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: siamak@sltg26.ljo.dec.com (Parviz Siamak)
Subject: Laser Printer Wanted
Keywords: laser printer
Organization: Software Licensing Technology Group
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers,ne.wanted,ne.forsale
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:06:48 GMT

Hi,

I like to buy a new or used laser printer with postscript capabilities for home use.

If you have one or you have any information on which system to get, please let me know.

Thanks,

--parviz
From: fff@microplex.com (Fred Fierling)
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and network printers. RE: comp.periphs.printers 4697
Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd.
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 17:43:48 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.192134.2645@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> levine@regent.enet.dec.com (Rick LeVine) writes:

>First, lets talk about performance. Using standard lpd on tcpip, the printer
>(or hidden-workstation if you will) has to parse every byte of the incoming
>data stream, looking for control characters. Networked printers, especially

Not true.  The transport layer of TCP/IP is completely transparent and
indifferent to data passing through it.  Only LPD print filters and that
portion of a printer that implements a print language parse the incoming
stream.

>Performance is NOT the only reason to choose such a robust protocol,
>though. A major factor in driving this choice was CONTROL CHARACTER
>ALIASING... if you are reading in an image file under any of the other
>print protocols and the bits in the image sequence happen to alias
>a CONTROL D, 99% of the time your job will abort.(Because the printer
>SAW a CONTROL D). Dual channel means that aliasing is never a problem
>and no fancy workarounds are needed.

Once again, parsing of the data is handled by the printer's interpreter, not
the transport layer.  TCP/IP sends a packet full of control D's just as well
as one full of spaces.  If a printer interprets control D's as end of job,
then its language will have some extension to encode any image data that
happens to be a control D.

>A network printer with an appropriately thought-out protocol should have the
>same degree of transparent access to files anywhere on the network without
>having to duplicate them locally. The printer should be able to get what it
>needs, on demand, from any host which has a pending print job. That is, in
>a general sense, what Digital's CPAP protocol provides.

CPAP sounds very interesting, and I'm sure it's a very well thought out
network printing standard.  But LPD is already out there.  Many machines
from many different manufacturers already use LPD.  Are there plans to
promote CPAP as an open standard (say, in an RFC), or will it only be
available in DEC equipment?
-- 
Fred Fierling    fff@microplex.com      Tel: 604 875-1461   Fax: 604 875-9029
Microplex Systems Ltd   265 East 1st Avenue   Vancouver, BC  V5T 1A7,  Canada
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: boyken@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Karl Boyken)
Subject: Sun 4.0 software for HP LJ TCP/IP?
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 16:49:50 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., U. of Iowa

We have a few HP LaserJets with HP TCP/IP interfaces.  We've got the interface
software up and running on an HP 9000-700 and on a SPARC running Sun OS 4.1.1.
We also have a Sun 3 running Sun OS 4.0 that we'd like to run the interface
software on.  But, it doesn't work on the Sun 3.  I suspect it's because it's
not running Sun OS 4.1.  Is there a version of the HP TCP/IP interface
software that will run on Sun OS 4.0?  Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: fluet@ee.ualberta.ca (Kevin Blaine Fluet)
Subject: HELP with Smith-Corona D200 dip settings?
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 06:21:31 GMT

Hi people,

I don't know if anyone out there can help me, but I thought I would give
it a shot anyway...

I have an old Smith Corona D200 printer that has been gathering dust in my
basement for years, and due to upgrading from a Mac to a NeXT, I want to
be able to hook up my dusty old printer to my Mac Plus.  The printer's
manual is long gone, and I need to know the dip switch settings to enable
the serial port on the printer.

Does anyone out there have a SC D200 printer and/or manual and know how to
configure the serial port to 9600 baud?

Thank you in advance to anyone who can help me. 

-------------------------
Kevin Fluet
fluet@ee.ualberta.ca
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From: lcornell@carson.u.washington.edu (Linda D. Cornell)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Where to get PostScript fonts for ATM
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:49:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct15.174907.29973
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Hello Netters, I got a printer that can handle PostScript installed, and I
got ATM installed and apparently working under Windows.  Now I'm out
looking for fonts... 

I checked archie, and most of what I saw looked like X11 or Ghostscript. 
I think those are display fonts (right/wrong?).  We're looking for relatively
normal fonts for desktop publishing type stuff.

Any guidance, suggestions, caveats will be greatly appreciated!

Linda Cornell
lcornell@u.washington.edu
University of Washington
Office of Research
From: tims@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: MacFriends QuickKor printers
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:29:21 CDT
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

Has anyone out here used a MacFriends' QuickKor 600 (8MB) or QuickKor TS 
for printing?  I am looking at buying one, but would like any comments 
anyone might have.

Thanks tons,

TIM
From: 2ftpbrat@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: BubbleJet, InkJet, and Laser Printer
Date: 11 Oct 92 20:18:46 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

I am planning on purchasing a printer soon. However, I have decided to
choose from BubbleJet, InkJet, and Laser Printer. Could anyone tell me
the advantages and disadvantages of each? Thanks.

Chieh

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: cudat@warwick.ac.uk (J M Hicks)
Subject: wide margins on Panasonic KXP1124
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:00:56 GMT

Does anyone know how to put the right margin on a Panasonic KXP1124
printer more than eight inches to the right of the left margin?
It is possible to adjust the margins, but the printing width seems
limited.

The printer seems capable of taking A4 paper in a landscape orientation,
but this wouldn't be very useful without a wider printing width.

This may be an old chestnut: send me electronic mail and I'll submit
a summary to this news group.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: john@library.nrl.navy.mil (John E. Rose)
Subject: Re: Seiko "Smart Label Printer Plus"
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: NRL
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:26:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct12.222049.18926@madnix.uucp>, zaphod@madnix.uucp (Ron
Bean) wrote:
> 
> 
>    Has anyone used one of these yet? There is also a competing
> (more expensive) model from Costar.
>  
>    I called Seiko in CA and they sent me some advertising, with a
> mailing label that was obvioulsy printed on one of them. It's
> slick like thermal fax paper (it's a thermal printer), and the
> resolution doesn't look very high-- about like a fax in lo-res
> mode. The graphics capability looks interesting, though, and it
> comes with barcode sofware.
>  

We got a CoStar LabelWriter II and have had good results with it.  However,

we have run it only on Mac's, and we have not tried bar code printing.  
Basically we just make sure our labels agree with our mail rooms specs, 
and then we have no problems.  As for use/efficiency, I'd say its great.
It only takes about a half minute to print, depending on the font you use.

If I ever buy one for myself for home use it will probably be the CoStar,
since:  it has worked well for me at work, it has done all I wanted it to
do, and the engine at the heart of other label printers is the one that
CoStar makes.  (IMHO go for the CoStar)

BTW, always check around for the mail order places.  At some places the 
CoStar is more expensive than the Seiko, and at other places the reverse
may hold.  Also some mail order places may have heard of one printer and
not the other.



John E. Rose      Naval Research Laboratory, Microcomputer 
john@library.nrl.navy.mil          Software Support Center
johnrose@mssc_next1.nrl.navy.mil     //send NeXT mail here
johnr45@aol.com                //just the basic mail info.
From: Jerry Whiting <jwhiting@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Date: 11 Oct 92 08:35 PDT
Subject: Re: Advice on NEC Silentwriter 95 neede
Nf-ID: #R:SALEHI.92Oct7132750@splinter.coe:-771341548:cdp:1355900005:000:242
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!jwhiting    Oct 11 08:35:00 1992


I love my NEC 95.  It's just slow at 6ppm.  The PSTEST that someone sent me 
from Canada rates the processor as relatively fast.  But I'm hooked up direct 
and don't share it with anyone else so speed ain't an issue.  Great output!

jwhiting

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
From: hm@opus40.ix.de (Harald Milz)
Subject: Re: Where to get PostScript fonts for ATM
Organization: iX-Redaktion
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:30:27 GMT


You should be able to find several ads in every computer magazine
offering PD fonts for the ATM. 
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: sci10147@nusunix1.nus.sg (WONG HUNG)
Subject: Star printer
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 01:24:57 GMT

I have a problem with printing on STAR NB24-10 printer while in windows.
Only rubbish comes out. I was wondering if the printer driver is faulty.

Gavin
From: marshall@sdd.hp.com (Marshall Clow)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers
Date: 8 Oct 1992 20:28:51 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard San Diego Printer Division
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdr160.sdd.hp.com

In article <1992Oct7.212302.21391@dg-rtp.dg.com>, ryan@weevil.rtp.dg.com
(Ben Ryan) wrote:
> 
> I just bought a Deskjet 500C (with which I am very happy :-) ) after
> the local CompuAdd dropped the price for $700+ to $599.  Just yesterday
> I saw an add that probably explains the drop.  There is a new printer:
> THE DESKJET 550C!  It sells for $719 and says it can print color and
> true black print (at the same time?).  So I'm curious.  Does it use
> new cartridges that have cyan, magenta, yellow AND BLACK?  Is it faster
> that the 500C?  I would love to hear the specs if anyone has them. 
> 

The DeskJet 550C contains contains two cartridges at the same time.
One contains black ink, like the DeskJet 500, and the other is a
tri-chamber
containing Cyam, Magenta, and Yellow, like the 500C.

Marshall Clow
San Diego Printer Division      Hewlett Packard
Internet: marshall@sdd.hp.com   AppleLink: HP.Marshall    AOL: MClow
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From: jeffrey@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Jeffrey A. Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,soc.culture.soviet
Subject: Cyrillic Font for Epson?
Date: 15 Oct 92 13:20:15 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia Economics Department

Does anyone have a Cyrillic printer font for an Epson 24 pin printer?
I would appreciate any help in obtaining a Cyrillic font for a dot matrix
printer.

Thank you,
Jeffrey
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: jksson@athena.mit.edu (Jens Karlsson)
Subject: Info on NEC SilentWriters (vs HP LJ) requested.
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 14:42:55 GMT

I will be buying a laserprinter shortly, and have narrowed my choice to
the NEC 95 or the HP III P.  I am slightly partial to the NEC 95, because 
it is faster and holds more paper.

However, HP's reputation for high reliability is a strong factor.  Thus,
I am soliciting information about the reliability of NEC printers, which 
I know nothing about.  

Since the NEC 95 is too new to have developed a track record, I would have to 
base my decision on what people's experiences with the NEC 90 have been.
(although if you *have* had problems with the NEC 95, *please* let me know!!)
Likewise, if anybody has had bad experiences with the HP IIIP, I would like
to hear from you.

Please either post here or e-mail me directly at jksson@athena.mit.edu .
If I get a significant amount of e-mail, I will post a summary.

Thank you for your help!

	-Jens
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: sdavis@panther (Steve Davis)
Subject: Advice needed on Tractor-feed Laser Printers
Organization: NASA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 20:29:28 GMT


I'm looking for information on laser printers that can accept tractor-feed  
(fan-fold) paper.  Some of the basic features and performance requirements are  
as follows:

	- 802.3 interface
	- TCP/IP and ARP support
	- Internal spooling of print jobs from multiple network hosts
	- Print speed of at least 15 ppm @ 67 lines/page (~1000 lines/min.)
	- Print resolution of at least 300 dpi
	- Printable area at least 8 inches wide
	- PostScript Page Description Language implementation

In addition, the following features are desired, though not required:

	- Individual sheet feed handling from at least two paper cassettes
	  (i.e., like a normal dual-cassette laser printer)
	- Support for multiple page sizes (letter, legal, ledger, exec., etc.)
	- Ability to print labels and transparencies
	- At least 16 MB RAM
	- Options for additional PDLs other than PostScript

The above should not be considered a formal technical specification for  
procurement, but a request for information on any manufacturers and models that  
might meet our needs.

The only printer I'm aware of that accepts tractor-feed paper is the OTC  
LaserMatrix 1000.  If you have any experience with this or other printers in  
this category, I'd appreciate any comments with regard to reliability,  
serviceability, and overall satisfaction.

Please send comments to the email address below, if possible.

Thanks,

Steve	
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Coreldraw 2 vs. HPIIIp with postscript
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 14:58:04 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Just because the Postscript file is small doesn't mean it isn't complex.
Postscript has some VERY high-level commands in it, and can consume a lot
of printer computing power.

Usually, when working with Postscript, I end up setting my Windows
timeouts to maximum (999?).  Sort've the nature of the beast.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: reichrt@rtsg.mot.com (Charles H. Reichert)
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Organization: Motorola, Radio Telephone Systems Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:33:23 GMT

In article <Bw4H5G.6oC@vcd.hp.com>, rickk@vcd.hp.com (Rick Klaus) writes:
|> Dave Neff (neff@vcd.hp.com) wrote:
|>  
|> : Q:  Is there an upgrade from a DeskJet 500 or DeskJet 500C.
|> : 
|> : No.  There are very few common parts between the previous DeskJets and
|> : the 550C.  The 550C represents a new mechanical and electrical platform
|> : so any "upgrade" program would have to really be a trade in program.
|> : I do not know of any plans for such a program.
|> 
|> Well, I wasn't going to post anything, but I can't pass up a chance to
|> correct Dave :-).
|> 
|> There is an upgrade program for the DJ500 and DJ500C (but none of the
|> earlier versions).  As Dave said, it is essentially a trade-in and the
|> cost reflects that.  It is $500 to upgrade a DJ500C to a DJ550C and $600
|> to upgrade a DJ500 to a DJ550C.  You may be better off to sell your old
|> printer and just buy a new one!  The upgrade program will start in the
|> middle of November.
|> 
|> Rick Klaus
|> rickk@vcd.hp.com


$500 to upgrade to a 550C!  That's pretty insulting!  Now if they would
take off $500 that would leave a $300 upgrade price.  Now that I just may go
for!

BTW...Does anyone know if the 550C allows for paper positioning and easy
cleaning?  That's one big drawback with the 500C.

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Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 1992 18:34:50 CET
From: <FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Black band down right of page -- help!

>From: joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Cliff Joslyn)
>Subject: Black band down right of page -- help!
>Date: 13 Oct 92 14:25:21 GMT
>
>
>I'm about half-way through the life of the second ever cartridge in my
>Epson EPL-7000 (LJ IIP compatible), and I now get an irregular dark
>band of toner down the right side of almost every page. I've seen this
>on other printers as well. I've cleaned everything I can find to
>clean. What's up? This never happened with the first cartridge. Do I
>need yet another cartridge?
>

 We have had in the past a sysptom which sounds exactly like what you describe.
I had it happen on a IID (Different cartridge) and it happened on 3 cartridges
in all (each after only 1 or 2000 pages) when it happened the second time I
checked the batch/serial/date/whatever-it-was no's and they were all from the
same batch, i.e. we got a bad lot.
 Since those 3 (and it was over 2 years ago and a VERY busy printer) I've never
seen it again.
 Methinks that you'll have to try another cartridge.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)
Subject: Re: Fax option for NEC laser printers
Organization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:35:59 GMT

jwhiting@igc.apc.org (Jerry Whiting) writes:
>I have a 95.  I already called my dealer.  Box needs to go to a factory 
>authorized repaird facility cuz it needs a little surgery.  Seems NEC 
>didn't put in a port or card slot.  I was promised 1 to 1-1/2 day turn 
>around.
>
>At $595 list, I'll wait.  This hot a printer, the price will go down in 
>9 months.  I went out and bought a stand along thermal paper box.
>
>All that said and done, I probably will get the FAX option.  I saw some 
>beta work at the PostScript conference a couple years back and between 
>two such machines, the output is nothing short of incredible.

Presuming you use your NEC 95 in a business application, you say
that you would be willing to do without it for at least 2 days
(don't believe 1 day!), have the surgery performed on it,
and pay $600 for this.

I can only assume that it is hooked to a computer now, so why
is it more desirable to turn your computer's printer into
a FAX machine rather than letting the computer shove the
bits around the phone lines and print when ready?

Unless there is some convincing evidence that makes this
superior, I say a FAX modem is far and away a much
smarter arrangement. And cheaper. And more flexible. And...

-- 

bote@access.digex.com (John Boteler)