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From: mdgoodma@apgea.army.mil (Malcolm D. Goodman <mdgoodma>)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: 1000 Feet of White Paper for 15.00 + shipping ** For Sale**
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:22:30 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: APG-Edgewood


Banner Paper For Sale.  I just bought 14 boxes of this stuff thinking
it was plotter paper.  While it could be used for that, it wasn't
coated like I thought it would be, so I don't want it.

I have found that it makes great BANNER Paper.  11 inches wide, continuous
with no perfs, and no tractor feed holes.  Must use in a printer
with friction feed option.

These come packaged in a box of 2 rolls and each roll is 500 FEET Long.!!

I am asking 15.00 dollars a box + shipping but if you want more than 
one box I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks

Mack
mdgoodma@cbda8.apgea.army.mil

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From: ahroot@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Help!! *Two* parallel printers from 1 PC ??????????????????????????????
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 17:47:38 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Brian D Milner (Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk) wrote:
> Can I *add* a parallel port to my PC? 
Piece of cake.  Runs about $15 on this side of the pond.

> Can I use a serial port to run a parallel printer? 
Can, but the converter box ain't cheap, and if you're printing graphics,
you can kiss your performance goodbye.

> Can I get a switch thing to direct my output from one port 
> between two printers?
Again, you can, but it'll be cheaper and less hassle to add a second LPT
port to your computer.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: dalessio@rtsg.mot.com (Mario D'Alessio)
Subject: Postscript on an HP Deskjet
Summary: Postscript on an HP Deskjet
Keywords: hp HP deskjet postscript
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 22:24:43 GMT

I have a PC Windows program which requires a postscript
printer to print files with EPS (encapsulated postscript)
clip art.  Is there a program (commercial or shareware)
that can allow me to print this stuff?

As far as I can tell, I need a program that runs in the
background, can intercept the postscript output, and print
the file to the deskjet.

Will Ghostscript do this?

As an alternative, is there a program which can intercept
the printer output and save it to a file so I can print it
later on a postscript printer?

Thanks in advance.

Mario


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From: scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com (Scott Linn)
Subject: Re: Canon BJ300 verus HP DJ500
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 00:53:43 GMT

dbullis@cognos.com (Dave Bullis) writes:
: Any thoughts on the pros and cons of these two printers?
: Output from the from any Deskjet (500, 500C, 550C) I've seen 
: has a halo on tiny dots around the characters.  Hardly 'laser-quality'.
: Previous articles attributed this to the DJ's print head being further from
: the paper than the BJ's.  The BJ300's output looks much crisper.

One of the most often-heard complaints about the DeskJet when it first came
out was the smearing of the ink.  If you have sweaty/moist hands, and touch
the output (soon after printing is the worst), you get a smear.  The new
ink for the DeskJets solved this problem (or most of it).  The BJ still has
it, though.

I would recommend licking a finger and wiping respective samples, and see if
you could live with what you see.

Scott Linn
scott@hpcvccl.cv.hp.com
From: elliott@veronica.cs.wisc.edu (James Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4M PPD files
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:49:38 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

krishnan@hpl.hp.com (N K Krishnan) writes:

>tims@bvc.edu wrote:
>:[A request for information about Macintosh PPD files for the LaserJet 4M]

>I believe it has been released.  Only Hewlett-Packard is distributing
>the PPD file for the LaserJet 4M.  To receive this file, you must call
>(303)353-7650 and ask for "PPD Disk for LaserJet 4M".

Hmm, it seems a waste of money to send a whole disk for a little PPD
file, but I guess I shall have to call them, then. I just got my 4M on
Thursday night, and love it!

I also wonder if they have yet released a version of the Macintosh
LaserJet 4M driver that is compatible with the System 7.1 Fonts
folder. I had to hack mine with ResEdit in order for it to correctly
download PostScript fonts from this folder. If anyone is interested in
instructions on how to do that, let me know.

-- 
Jim Elliott----------------------------------------elliott@cs.wisc.edu
 "There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive
  feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted
  out under the guise of virtue."  -- Erich Fromm
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tt@marius.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500/SPARC
Originator: tt@marius.math.jyu.fi
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
	<1993Jan6.065106.15195@swbatl.sbc.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 13:37:14 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.065106.15195@swbatl.sbc.com> dn3662@oktext.sbc.com (David W. Neill) writes:

>In article <Jan05.210653.71633@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> dianee@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Diane Eyre) writes:
>>
>>I have an HP Deskjet 500 that I would like to use on a
>>SPARCstation.

>ghostscript can convert from PostScript to HPGL(?5), I've seen
>PostScript files printed on a DJ500C from a SparcStation this way.

It's HP-PCL, not HP-GL (which is used in HP plotters, although some
printers understand it also), and the DeskJet uses PCL level 3;
level 5 was introduced with LaserJet III, I think, and I haven't
heard of level 6 yet.
--
Tapani Tarvainen  (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
From: bwong@csulb.edu (Bradley Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4 expansion questions
Date: 6 Jan 93 18:41:11 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cal State Long Beach

...
>> reason I say "effectively" is that the mother board has 4 "SIMM" slots, 1 is
>> used for the included 4MB, and TWO are used for the PS2 option. Thus you only
>> have 1 slot left into which a max 8MB can be added.
>
>That's the missing piece of information: the HP PostScript SIMM module
>for the LJ4 takes two of the four available SIMM slots.  I thought I
>read the manual fairly well, but this little item escaped my notice.

 I believe this has been raised before in this group, but the CURRENT
 HP PostScript 2 SIMM only requires ONE SIMM SLOT, not two. I believe
 a previous poster mentioned that the 2-slot PS SIMM was a very
 preliminary version.
From: Brian.Milner@brunel.ac.uk (Brian D Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Help!! *Two* parallel printers from 1 PC ??????????????????????????????
Date: 8 Jan 93 09:44:23 GMT
Organization: Brunel University, West London, UK


	I am running a laser printer from my PC's parallel port. Now I'd 
like to add a parallel dot matrix printer as well. 

	Can I *add* a parallel port to my PC? 
	Can I use a serial port to run a parallel printer? 
	Can I get a switch thing to direct my output from one port 
	between two printers?
	Is there any other way I can get this going?

	Only *you* know the answers.

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ummalik@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ijaz Rashid Malik)
Subject: A question about setup strings
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 13:03:56 GMT



I am looking for help with setup strings of HP LaserJet III printer. I have
to print reports from Borland's Paradox and I want to pass setup strings to
control the fonts and styles of different lines of report. Problem is that
I dont know the proper way to mix the commands to achieve cetain effect.

For example I want to print a line in Bold, 18 size, underlined. But it will
either comeout 18 size or underline but not both. Then I terminate the line with
"\027E" to reset the printer so that the underline or 18 size bold effect does
not carry over to subsequent lines of the report but I have noticed that while
\027E is supposed to reset the printer, it produces the page break. And if I
take \027E out, the underlines and/or 18 size bold fonts are carried over to
all of the report. How can I over come these problems? What is the proper way
to mix these commands and how can I bring printer back to its default setting
after printing a line in special style *without* producing a page break.

I will appreciate any help on this as I have just started experimenting with
printer language and I am totally stuck while working on an important report.

Thanks,
Malik
ummalik@ccu.umanitoba.ca
From: sysadm@philmtl.philips.ca (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Interleaf Printer
Date: 5 Jan 93 21:28:38 GMT
Organization: Philips Electronics Limited, St. Laurent QC, Canada


	During a recent cleanup, I found an Interleaf printer/controller. The
( what I guess to be ) controller has a label on it that says it is a 
Cx-RIP-1, and it has a number of ports on it. The ports are labeled Computer 
Serial, Computer Parallel, and Console. There is also another port on it that
says Printer, and it has a cable that connects to what looks like a Cannon CX
printer ( i.e. looks like a HP Laserjet 1 or a QMS PS800+). I was told that this setup was used on a dedicated DTP system built around a SUN 2. I have the following questions:

	1- What type of printer is this ? ( i.e. proprietary, Postscript, PCL)

	2- If this is a Postscript or PCL printer, can this printer be used
	with a PC, and if so, does anybody have any information on the ports?

	3- Would this printer work with a Mac?

	4- Does Interleaf still support this? I know they do DTP software, but
	do they still do hardware?

	Please E-mail or post, I keep an eye on this group.


						Thanks,
						Kostas
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: russo@rtsg.mot.com (Bruno N. Russo)
Subject: Shame on me! I touched it! (toner roller)
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 22:44:28 GMT

 I have an HPlaserjetII printer.  I had a black toner line down one side of
the paper.  I decided to try to fix it by cleaning the green roler under the
door.  The results were catastrophic! I had a full sheet of black toner on
what should have been a blank page.  I tried several times to correct the
problem by cleaning the toner roller and the toner powder that had dropped all
over the inside of the printer.  I guess they mean it when they say
DO NOT TOUCH THIS ROLLER!!.  I  have since got most of the black marks and
streaks out but it still looks like a cheap xerox output.  Is the only hope to
have  a good output except having the cartridge rebuilt??

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.mac.wanted,misc.forsale.computers,misc.forsale.computers.mac
From: tao3144@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Subject: Apple LaserWriter sale: NEW PRICE
Reply-To: tao3144@ritvax.isc.rit.edu
Organization: Rochester Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:22:39 GMT

For sale at new lower price
Apple LaserWriter IIF with:
only 3500 pages printed
1 year old
8mb expanded memory
Photograde
Fineprint image enhancement

$1600

With a 40mb Quantum LPS SCSI external font hardrive with fonts:

$1850

offer considered
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: jiang@csbser.csb.yale.edu (Jianxin Jiang)
Subject: Impress to PostScript translator wanted
Keywords: Impress, PostScript
Organization: Center for Structural Biology, Yale University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:21:07 GMT

Hello,

    I wonder if you have a Impress to PostScript translator or know where
to get it. Thanks a lot.

							Jiang
							jiang@csbser.csb.yale.edu
From: andrew@frip.WV.TEK.COM (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Help!  Need to interface typewriter to a PC.
Date: 8 Jan 93 21:22:51 GMT
Reply-To: andrew@frip.wv.tek.com
Organization: Tektronix Color Printers, Wilsonville, Oregon

[]

	"You can get 45 cps Diablo printers with serial interfaces for
	$50 or so at flea markets."

Yes, but keeping them working is a black art.

  -=- Andrew Klossner  (andrew@frip.wv.tek.com)
                       (uunet!tektronix!frip.WV.TEK!andrew)
From: allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Data from HP Ethernet Printers? hpnet.post
Date: 12 Jan 1993 21:19:10 -0800
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: hpsdlx.sdd.hp.com

In article <1993Jan12.222143.22325@kbsw1>, doug@kentek.com (Doug Bonnell) writes:
>      Hope the HP people can give me some insight on the following. Thanks in
> advance :-).

i'm not an expert, but i'll give it a shot.

>      Does any data come back from an HPIII or HPIIIsi on ethernet? 

only when using postscript mode.  laserjets in pcl mode are
completely silent.

> 	1. Does the JetDirect card originate messages back to the host, or
> 	   is it merely passing data from the printer back to the host?

the jetdirect card merely passes data from the printer to the host.

> 	   If the printer originates messages to the host, which models
> 	   (HPIII, HPIIIsi, etc.) do this?

i believe any models with postscript (but it might only be the laserjet 
iiisi and laserjet 4).  there may also be a pjl (printer job language) 
status command that might say something, but i'm not sure.

> 	2. How does one configure the JetDirect (or printer) to send data
> 	   back to the host?

nothing to do here.

> 	3. Where can I get information on the data being sent back to the
> 	   host? I presume it would be something useful, such as:
> 	   "printer jammed", "out of paper", etc.

sorry, none.

"printer jammed"-type messages are snmp traps sent to the 
trap-destination host.  that's the only way to be notified.

not an official response.
-- 
 From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin            allyn@sdd.hp.com
                          San Diego Division       - or -
                          Hewlett-Packard Company  uunet!ucsd!hp-sdd!allyn
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tneser@mzes.sowi.uni-mannheim.de (Thomas Neser)
Subject: Siemens 9001 printer
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 93 12:41:27 GMT
Organization: Fachhochschule fuer Technik Mannheim
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Hi,
i need help bringing a Siemens 9001 transdata printer with serial interface
15 pin for Siemens 9750 9770 and 9780 9753 Terminals to work with a
normal PC with 24 pin serial Interface. 
Anyone an idea?
Thanks
---
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Zeus im MZES, Universitaet Mannheim, Steubenstr. 46, D-W-6800 Mannheim, Germany
INTERNET: fs21@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de               FAX: +49-621-292-8435
 
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tome@cs.umr.edu (Tom Erb)
Subject: Where can I download windows drivers for an HPLJ4
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:42:20 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Keywords: driver windows hp laserjet printer
Originator: tome@mcs213h.cs.umr.edu

The title says it, I'm looking for the windows drivers for an HP laserjet 4.
I guess I'm looking for drivers for any software, but the Windows one is 
most important. The only place I looked for them was wuarchive.wustl.edu, and
they didn't seem to have them yet.

Thanks in advance,
Tom Erb (tome@cs.umr.edu)

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: jordi@marsun1.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Steve JORDI)
Subject: Mac Printer --> PC ???
Reply-To: jordi@scsun.unige.ch
Organization: University of Geneva	
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 15:00:27 GMT

Hello there,
I have both a Mac and a 486. I have an inkjet Mac StyleWriter printer connected
to my Mac. 

I would like to know if it is possible to connect it to my 486 ?
Did anybody already try it ? I think I'll need both a connector and a 
driver? Or is the Canon BubbleJet driver provided with Windows enough ?

Thanks for any help !

Sincerely,

Steve Jordi                

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 500
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:54:31 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Diane Eyre (dianee@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu) wrote:
: 
: I have an HP Deskjet 500 that I would like to use on a
: SPARCstation.  However, HP doesn't support Unix for this
: printer.

As a character printer, it's easy to support - just put in any number of
lines per page limitation (63) and font selection sequences - rather
similar to character-driven HP laser printers.

For graphics, there are a number of postscript, etc. to pcl filters out there,
many specific to DeskJets. ghostscript comes to mind as one and there are
most certainly others.

For graphics I most often use Jeff Poskanzer's ppm utilities to produce
postcript, then use ghostscipt to produce DeskJet (color, too) output.

All of this done from an HP-UX workstation with remote spooler capability on a
SLIP link. (Sorry I'm not much use to you for Sun printcaps.)

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom Division
(All opinions are, of course, my own)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Subject: Re: HP Thinkjet Dip Switches
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:24:30 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Keith P. Tomlin (ktomlin@csugrad.cs.vt.edu) wrote:
:  
: Does anyone know what dip-switch settings I should use in order for the
: printer to work?

The serial ThinkJet has two sets of switches next to one another, labelled
"Modes" and "RS232". The Modes has 8 bits, RS232 has 5.

First the Modes:

    1 - CR definition. UP:   do CR/LF when CR received
		       DOWN: do CR only when CR received

    2 - LF definition. UP:   do CR/LF when LF received
		       DOWN: do LF only when LF received

    3 - Perf skip.     UP:   1 inch perf skip
		       DOWN: no perf skip

    4 - Page length    UP:   12 inch
		       DOWN: 11 inch

    5 - Control seq    UP:   ALternate mode (Epson MX-80/100, IBM Graphics)
		       DOWN: HP mode

    6,7,8              Character set select

		        6     7     8               Character set
		       ----------------             -------------
		       down  down  down             [HP]Roman-8
		        up   down  down             US ASCII
		       down   up   down             Swedish
		        up    up   down             IBM 8 (PC-8)
		       down  down   up              French
		        up   down   up              German  
		       down   up    up              United Kingdom
		        up    up    up              Spanish

Now the RS232:

    1 - Handshake mode UP:   Hardware handshake (DTR)
		       DOWN: XON/XOFF (DC1/DC3)

    2,3                Parity setting and character size

		        2     3              Parity       Bits in char
		       ----------            ------       ------------
		       down  down            None         8 (or 0 + 7-bit)
		       down   up             Odd          7
		        up   down            Even         7
		        up    up             One's        7

    4,5                Baud rate setting

		        4     5              Speed
		       ----------            -----
		       down  down             9600
		       down   up             19200
		        up   down             2400
		        up    up              1200

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom Division

(and, no, I'm not responsible for any errors!)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: southiea@JSP.UMontreal.CA (Southiere Alain)
Subject: Re: Canon BJ300 verus HP DJ500
Organization: Universite de Montreal -- Montreal, PQ, Canada
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 21:09:58 GMT

In article <1993Jan7.222042.1043@cognos.com> dbullis@cognos.com (Dave Bullis) writes:
>Any thoughts on the pros and cons of these two printers?
>Output from the from any Deskjet (500, 500C, 550C) I've seen 
>has a halo on tiny dots around the characters.  Hardly 'laser-quality'.
>Previous articles attributed this to the DJ's print head being further from
>the paper than the BJ's.  The BJ300's output looks much crisper.
>
>The specs say the BJ300 is faster in text mode (draft and LQ).
>PC-mag shows the DJ500 about twice as fast in graphics modes, but they used
>different tests for the BJ300 (in 91 Printers Special Issue) and
>the DJ500C/550C (in 92 Printers Special Issue), so its hard to say.

   I don't know about de BJ's, but I recently buyed a DJ500C and I'm
very satisfyed with it. Yes, I got a halo of tiny dots around characters
but mostly with the 3 ou 4 first printing I did with it... Seems like
the printing cartridge need a little 'burn-in'. Now, after a thousand
or so more sheets printed, the halo is almost inexistent. You really
have to put your nose on the sheet in very bright light to see it. But
even so, it's rather an exception to get the halo.

   I also found that a little less intensity of the black will prevent
almost all these halo problems.

   But for this little incovenience, You get really cheap color 
printing ! I printed a few GIF's and was really impressed with the
quality of printing. Of course, it's not like a picture in a magazine,
but it's still very good quality and everyone I showed them to were
impressed with this quality of printing for such a low price.

   The best thing of all, is that I currently do most of my printing
on ordinary 40M paper (the one I had with my 9-pins printer). Only
15$ for 2300 sheets ! The only problem with this paper is with
documents with large black or bright color areas, where there's too
much in for the paper, but just use the recommended paper in
these cases and it will be OK.

-- 
Alain Southiere           | You can't always get what you want,
southiea@jsp.umontreal.ca | But if you try sometimes,
--------------------------| You might find you get what you need !
Standard disclaimer here  |                -The rolling Stones
From: josephk@usc.edu (Joseph Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: ATM Printer
Date: 7 Jan 1993 14:02:25 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: aludra.usc.edu

Hi folks,

I have a beginner question.  I am looking into buying a printer that can 
produce resonable quality outputs.  An ad that really caught my attention 
is the one for Panasonic 2124 with ATM.  I understand ATM as a product that
lets you use Adobe PostScript fonts.  I am curious if this means you can
actually print PostScript files via Panasonic 2124.  If you can't then 
I am curious exactly what is the benefit of using ATM.

Joseph
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