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From: jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jiajie Zhang)
Subject: Q: connecting a postscript printer to the serial port of a sparc
Organization: The Ohio State University
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 02:16:21 GMT


I thought it's a trivial task.  But after spending more than three
hours on the setup, I was totally confused.

The printer (Apple LaserWriter IIf) and the sparc 2 are connected via
their serial ports by a null modem cable, as instructed.  I
reconfigured the RS432 on the sparc to RS232, also as instructed.  The
connection seems ok, since I can send signals to the printer by "cat
foo > /dev/ttya".  But I can not get anything printed out on the printer.

In the file /etc/ttytab, I changed the line

ttya   "/usr/etc/getty std.9600"       unknown         on local secure

TO

ttya    none                            unknown         on local secure

to prevent the execution of getty on port A, which is the device name
for the printer.  

I copied the printcap from another Sun that has similar settings and
made necessary changes to reflect the situations on my machine.

However, whenever I used lpq to list the queue, I always got something like
"daemon not present".   After I typed /usr/lib/lpd to activate the lpd
daemon manually, I got the same message.  After I used lpc to activate
the printer, I still got the same thing.

Any ideas on what the problems are?  Anyone has succeeded on the setup
with a similar setting (postscript printer connected to the serial
port of a sparc)?  

Any pointers will be greatly appreciated.

Jiajie Zhang
Department of Psychology
Ohio State University
jiazhang@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Subject: Laser Printer Toner Substitues
Organization: Syracuse University
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 92 10:03:14 EDT



I am looking for a substitute list of toner for popular toner cartridges.

I have used, with great success, Minolta 350,350z (I think) toner to
refill Cannon EP cartridges, like for a Apple Laserwriter, plus, HP Laserjet.
I have gotten some of the new style cartridge printers (EPS & EPL) and
am looking for the same -correct- replacement toner for these cartridges.
Anybody with horror stories or information, please reply in any manner.


Cartridge    Popular printers                                        Toner
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  EP        Apple Laserwriter, Plus,  Cannon LBP-8, LBP-8D     Minolta 350/350Z
            HP Laserjet 2686, plus, 500 plus, 2686TA, 1686TA  (I better check)
            QMS, Big Kiss, II, 800, 800II, 800+                 (Others ?)

  EPS       Apple Laserwriter IInt, ntx, Personal Laserwriter
            Declaser 2100, 2200,   Nec Silentwriter ii 260, 290
            HP Laserjet IID, II, III, IIID
            QMS, Lasergrafix 810, 820, PS 810, 820
            Star 811,  Cannon LBP-811R, 811T, LBP-8111

  EPL       Brother HL-4,  Cannon LBP-4, LBP-TX, P110
            HP  IIP, IIIP, IIP plus,   QMS PS-410

  EPSi      HP Laserjet IIISi,  Cannon LBP-RX, SX, TX






This is a approximate list of printers, I've taken it from a supplier catalog,
and may have made typos.  I see at lest one printer is shown as using 2 dif-
ferent cartridges, and assume this is intentional, and correct, and the
better cartridge is used for better quality output.  
Email or followups gladly accepted....
thanks
al

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From: pegah@cps.msu.edu (Mahmoud Pegah)
Subject: Apple LaserWriter IIg loosing zone on power cycle.
Originator: pegah@pleiades.cps.msu.edu
Organization: Computer Science, Mich State Univ
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:43:16 GMT


	Hello All:

	We have an Apple LaserWriter IIg connected directly to ethernet.
	It is set up to be in our local appletalk zone. It works fine,
	except when we restart or power cycle the printer it looses its
	zone info and ends up in another zone instead of our local zone.
	Is there anybody out there with similar problem? Does anybody
	know how to solve the this problem? Thanks for all the help you
	may provide.


	-Mahmoud Pegah
	AI/KBS Lab, CPS
	Mich State Univ
From: amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: EPSON software emulation for HP Laserjet
Keywords: epson laserjet
Date: 6 Sep 92 17:17:52 GMT
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

In article <1992Sep3.123421.25732@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
>In article <cole.715479165@lea> cole@lea.csc.ncsu.edu (Robert Cole) writes:
>>I've been looking for a software package (hopefully shareware) which
>>will provide a software emulation of an Epson dot-matrix in order to
>>print to a laserjet.
>
>It's called DMPLAS.ZIP and should be on major archive sites.
>Also has an optional set of 9-pin soft fonts for even better effect.
>
>For better results, you may wish to plunk down $150 or so for the
>Epson/IBM emulation cartridge made by HP.
>
>
>
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From: IFF291@DJUKFA11.BITNET (Stephan Petersen)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Info on low-cost PS printers wanted
Date: 11 Sep 92 08:31:29 GMT
Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich

I'm looking around for a low-cost Postscript printer that hooks
up to PCs as well as MACs (best would be serial, parallel and
Appletalk interface with autodetect, so that you can connect 3
computers simultaneously).

Does anybody have experiences (good or bad) with
- Mikrotek Truelasers (MTP 306)
- Data Products (LZR 960)

Any other recommendations?

Thanks for any pointers,
Stephan



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From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
Subject: Re: Color toner for HPLJ III?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:17:07 GMT

byron@homer.hsc.ucalgary.ca (Byron Draudson) writes:
>The graphics artist for our department asked me if color toner was
>available for laser printers like the HP LaserJet III and/or a 
>GCC Technology PLP II for the Apple MacIntosh.

>What she wants to do is a document in black, then one in red, then 
>one in black etc.  If such toner cartridges exist, can you do this?
>Does "mixing and matching" the toner cartridges cause subsequent
>prints to be an unwanted mix of the two colors (ie. is there any
>residue after switching a cartridge out).  Anything else to watch
>out for?  Thanks for any info.
*----
I have seen Canon type cartridges for laser printers in black, blue,
brown, and red toner.  I  don't know how they affect the machine or
how consistent the quality is (the prints I saw looked good).  I
don't remember where the carts came from.

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ern+@cs.cmu.edu (Rudy Nedved)
Subject: Re: DEC turbo PrintServer 20 information
Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:38:00 GMT

In article <14368@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> dmh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Darren Hosking) writes:
>Does anybody have any technical information about the above printer? Does
>anyone have one they are using from Unix? We have bought one and are having
>a few problems.
>
>	- offset printing NEVER works (the option is set to true in the config
>	file)
I am not familiar with this option.
>	- tumble printing doesn't work with all postscript
No am I familiar with this option.
>	- printer hangs or crashes once a week
We have hangs from complex postscript images especialy 4-up documents.
We also have duplex mode getting confused in printing the pages in the
wrong order.

The V2.0 code does not work for Turbo LPS-20s.

Overall I find the LPS-20 better then the LPS-40 but I very unsatisfied with
the overall machine. In the early days having a 40 page per minute printer
that dealt with PostScript over the network was a win and the misfeatures
could be ignored.

We sort of have the ability to run the LPS-20 and 40 using Unix but the
network code did not work for handling the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
cache. The end result is that we have 3 LPS-20/40s running the V2.0 Ultrix
stuff and 1 LPS-40 running the old VMS stuff. We are trying to get V4.0
code running but having difficulties with that also.

On the other hand the HP III SI printers seem to cook. We will see.

-Rudy




Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.dcom.fax
From: mparker@adobe.com (Mike Parker)
Subject: Re: New Compaq PS printer/fax
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 05:33:57 GMT

In article <TAMURA.92Sep9145714@lily.toda.ricoh.co.jp> tamura@toda.ricoh.co.jp (Hiroshi Tamura) writes:

>I would very much appreciate your answering the following question.
>What kind of fax-modems do these printers have ?

The modem was designed by and is built by Compaq.  It uses a Yamaha YM7109
fax chip.

>Can the PS file be sent between the Compaq PS fax printer and the NEC one ?
>If so, what kind of protocols is used ?  Using NSF/NSS in T.30 ?  Are there 
>any other agreements to do ? Is this open to the public ?

Yes, the Compaq and NEC can exchange PS files.  We use the NSF in T.30, but
there's a lot more to it (some bit about the security scheme that I don't
understand).  Yes, there are other fax printers in development for other
Adobe customers, I can't say who or when though.  Ummmm, yes, I guess.  We'll
certainly build fax printers for any customer who wants one.  We plan to
make the exact NSF sequence available under certain conditions.  For example,
if someone wanted to build a PC fax modem that could send PS files to
a PS fax printer, that would be a good thing for everybody.  E-mail me
for the name and contact information on the person who could tell you
when and under what circumstances we can give out this information.

mike



Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
Subject: Re: Laser Writer NTR question
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:15:01 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.190530.19906@news.iastate.edu> K1.ARC@isumvs.iastate.edu (Arnie Cowan) writes:
>Does the Apple Personal Laser Writer NTR support automatic switching
>between PostScript and PCL4 emulation?  How important is this
>capability for a one-user local printer on a DOS/Windows machine?

As an owner of an NTR and not as a representative of Adobe, I can
say that emulation switching is done manually, via a switch on
the back of the printer. I do not find it to be very inconvenient
because most of my printing is via MS Windows and I just leave it
in PS mode. I only set PCL4 mode to evaluate its speed and print
quality with respect to PS.

I am very pleased with my NTR.

-- 
My opinions are my own.
From: pegasus@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (chad burr)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Star NX-1001 Buffer Chips
Date: 15 Sep 92 02:25:10 GMT
Organization: Cybernet BBS, Boca Raton, Florida

I want to Upgrade my new NX-1001's 4k buffer to the 8k buffer but i dont 
want to buy the chip from Star Micronics
Im looking to get a better price
Will pay shipping but need the instructions to the chip
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From: ap@cbnews.cb.att.com (Alexis Porras)
Subject: FAQ(?): 11x17 laserprinter - low cost, postscript
Reply-To: ap@lpuxa.att.com
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:38:55 GMT
Followup-To: poster

Sure, there are several 11x17 laserprinters out there, including
several excellent but expensive QMS work horses, but are there
any **cheap** (<= $5000) 11x17 PS laserprinters available?

If this is a FAQ, or if you've compiled a list of 11x17
printers, please forward!  Thanks all.


				Alexis Porras
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Laserjet III/IIIsi: reading back status from parallel port
Date: 4 Sep 92 21:32:42 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.


Can a host read back status from the parallel port of a Laserjet III
or IIIsi?  If so, are there any caveats that I need to be aware of?

Another related question: does the IIIsi come bundled with PostScript,
or is it a factory-installed built-in option, or do I have to buy an
external cartridge?

If it's a factory-installed option, how much does it cost (the Fry's
salescritters didn't seem to be aware of any such factory options).

Yet another question: what exactly is the "Mac" option on these
LaserJets? Is it something like Laserjet + PS + Appletalk?

Much thanks for any info,
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Color toner for HPLJ III?
From: byron@homer.hsc.ucalgary.ca (Byron Draudson)
Date: 4 Sep 92 11:26:17 MDT
Reply-To: byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca
Distribution: world
Organization: Radiology, Foothills Hospital

The graphics artist for our department asked me if color toner was
available for laser printers like the HP LaserJet III and/or a 
GCC Technology PLP II for the Apple MacIntosh.

What she wants to do is a document in black, then one in red, then 
one in black etc.  If such toner cartridges exist, can you do this?
Does "mixing and matching" the toner cartridges cause subsequent
prints to be an unwanted mix of the two colors (ie. is there any
residue after switching a cartridge out).  Anything else to watch
out for?  Thanks for any info.

-- byron
________________________________________________________________________
Byron Draudson, Systems Manager               byron@yogi.hsc.ucalgary.ca
Radiology, Foothills Hospital, Calgary, Alberta, Canada   (403) 670-2442
From: ammond@gdls.UUCP (Joe Ammond)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Info requested about a TI OMNI 800.
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:00:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Sciences Corporation

Oops, the mail address I gave was bogus, reply to either the .sig, or 
ammond@gdls.csctmd.com.

Thanks,

ja.
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP III laser soft font creation help
From: H.Jones@massey.ac.nz (H.S. Jones)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 21:46:09 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Summary: Help required for braille soft font creation on HP Laser III
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

I have been given the job of finding a way to print Braille
characters in a visual form on an HP Laserjet III laser printer.  We
have the program called Braille Master which will output the codes
required to produce the dots and dips required but unfortunately it
only supports an Epson GQ-3500 laser.  The initialisation file for
the Epson printer appears to download a soft font containing only two
characters (dip & dot).  The company which distributes the Braille
software can give no support for other printers and after looking at
the problem I can see why.

What I would like.  Please!

It appears that the easiest option is to download a two character
softfont to the HP laser printer.  Unfortunately the HP manual skips
the softfont creation section and suggests I obtain the HPIII Printer
Reference Manual which explains the PCL 5 printer language.  This
manual if I can get it is 4 weeks away and too expensive for my
purposes.  I have worked out the codes required for the actual dot
positions of the two characters.

Would someone with experience in softfont creation please give me
some pointers on the following
   Font descriptor - does it include codes beside name?
                     what other info in this header.
   Download character - what are the first 16 bytes for in data string.
   Select font - how?

If you have any other ideas please let me know.

Harvey

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From: rusty@krishna.cs.umd.edu (Rusty Haddock)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Original Deskjet
Date: 11 Sep 92 05:10:20 GMT
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
In-reply-to: dpf@vax.oxford.ac.uk's message of 10 Sep 92 08:58:25 GMT

In the latter part of last year, if I remember correctly, I bought an HP ink
cartridge for my DeskJet PLUS.  In the box was an order form for an upgrade
kit that was free for the asking if my serial number matched a particular
set of numbers.  This kit was suppose to increase the consistency of print
cartridge life. [HP's words, not mine]

So far, it seems to have done the trick for me.  Apparently the fix has been
available for some time now.  The instruction manual I have was Copyright
1991, printed in January of that year.  Anyhow, the real information you may
want is

	HP Part Number 02276-90056

If I recall, this affected all DeskJets, some DeskJet PLUSes, and some
DeskWriters (for the Mac).  Do yourself a favor and check with HP about this
kit -- it is relatively easy to install once you match the pictures in the
booklet with what HP wants you to do. 1/2 :-(

If you have problems getting this on your side of the pond, bounce me mail
and I'll check State-side.

Cheers!

	-Rusty-

P.S.  You HP folks should politely :-) correct my mis-information.
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From: dpf@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Original Deskjet
Date: 10 Sep 92 08:58:25 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620


	Please forgive me if this is a FAQ - I don't monitor this newsgroup. My 
college library has an old HP Deskjet - original model. It's been replaced with
a LJ IIIP, but we don't want to waste the old Deskjet. The problem with it has
always been that it gets through cartridges at a rate of knots, and is thus
very expensive to run. I have memories of seeing details of this as a problem
with the original model: my question is, can anything be done about it? Is
there a harware mod. possible? Would a different driver make a difference? It
was driven from WP 5.1. mostly.
	Please mail me direct with any suggestions, as I don't monitor the
group. 
	Don Fowler
	DPF@UK.AC.OX.VAX
From: rwy@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Robert Young)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: printer driver libraries
Date: 12 Sep 1992 11:49:21 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Summary: looking for C/C++ printer driver libraries
Keywords: C printer driver libraries

I am looking for printer driver libraries.  I know of SLATE and some of the
Borland BGI drivers (I'll be developing software with Borland's C++ 3.1).
I'd like to know what other people are using before I spend a lot of money
on some of these things...

Please reply by e-mail to rwy@matt.ksu.ksu.edu 

Thanks.

Robert Young  rwy@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
From: willa@vcd.hp.com (Will Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet+ doesn't always feed paper
Date: 14 Sep 92 15:19:15 GMT
Organization: HP Vancouver Division
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1a5

From: Mark D. Crimmins, mdc@crux1.cit.cornell.edu
In article <mdc.716441636@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> Mark D. Crimmins,
mdc@crux1.cit.cornell.edu writes:

>My Deskjet+ has been real dependable until just lately, when it has
>gradually taken to being more and more choosy about when it wants to
>feed a sheet of paper.  Now it seems very hard to get it to feed a
>sheet---I have to jiggle the spring-loaded plate underneath the paper
>supply & pray.
>
>Is this a common problem with Deskjets?  Is there any fix short of
>sending it to the factory?
>
>Thanks,
>Mark

Mark:

Try cleaning the rollers with a damp (water only) cloth.  They accumulate
paper dust that can
cause mispicks.
From: robertson@ewir-wr.wr.aflc.af.mil (Joel Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: C.Itoh DIP Switch Settings
Date: 11 Sep 92 16:26:00 GMT
Organization: Robins AFB - LNEW
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

I have a C.Itoh 3810 printer which, of course, came without the manual.
My letters to C.Itoh about buying a manual have not been answered. I amd
using this printer after determining its baud rate and parity by trial
and error. 

Although I would like a manual, what I really need is the DIP switch
settings. It has 6 DIP switches: SW1 (8 position), SW2 (8 pos),
SW21 (8 pos), SW22 (4 pos), SW23 (6 pos), and SW24 (8 pos). It has
both RS-232 and Centronics interfaces. I have a manual for a C.Itoh
8510+ But the DIP switches are slightly different. It does not have
a SW24 and SW23 is an 8 position DIP switch.

1) Does anyone have the DIP switch settings for this flavor of 8510?

2) What action is required to switch from the RS-232 port to the Centronics
port?


Joel Robertson

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From: dmh@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Darren Hosking)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: DEC turbo PrintServer 20 information
Date: 7 Sep 92 06:21:44 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Does anybody have any technical information about the above printer? Does
anyone have one they are using from Unix? We have bought one and are having
a few problems.

	- offset printing NEVER works (the option is set to true in the config
	file)

	- tumble printing doesn't work with all postscript

	- printer hangs or crashes once a week

I'm also after info on all the extra postscript features this printer has
(eg limit number of pages) which aren't documented in the manual but I've
read about in some of the code (postscript) that the printer downloads.

I've tried talking to DEC but I'm not getting anywhere with them.

	Thanks, dmh

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