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From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Toner Bottle Has a FUSE!
Date: 12 Oct 92 09:19:50 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

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

>We've got a TI MicroLaser postscript printer which has one of those
>typical toner overflow bottles.   

>(1)  How does that little fuse-thingy work on the bottle?  Since the
>     fuse apparently blew and we don't have another bottle, 

The printer blows that fuse when you insert a new bottle.  In the process
it knows that the bottle and presumably the toner cartridge have been
changed.  You get another 3000 sheets before the machine kills itself again.
Just go to radio shack and get some more fuses.  Get the lowest current
they stock.  I think that would be 300 ma but I don't have mine handy.
My printer, at least, wants to see continuity followed by an open
in order to register the change so replacement fuses are the easiest
way to deal with it.

>(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?   

Works like a champ.

BTW, anyone found a source of bulk toner for this printer?

John
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From: holland@hpl.hp.com (Bill Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Summary: How does the 550C control black/color ink mixing?
Keywords: DeskJet 550C, undercolor removal
Date: 9 Oct 92 21:19:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: scd.BvvHw5.49G
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard

In article <Bvtp2D.7An@vcd.hp.com> neff@vcd.hp.com (Dave Neff) writes:

>The 550C has both the black ink cartridge and the three color CMY
>cartridges installed at all times.  It cannot fire both pens on a
>single print pass but will make a pass of color and then a pass of
>black over the same region of the page resulting in both true black
>and color on the page.  Actually color is generally printed right to
>left and black on the left to right retrace pass so there isn't a real
>performance hit of only firing one pen at a time.
>
>So here are all the general advantages of the 550C.
>
>True black with color.  This improves quality, reduces cost of ink, and
>in most cases improves performance.  No pen swapping needed.
>
>A wider color gamut due to genuine black ink.

Dave Neff offered to answer some questions about the 550C if they were
posted here, so here goes:

Q: Does the DeskJet 550C firmware or driver software mix the black ink
   with the cyan, magenta, and yellow inks when printing color graphics
   or images, to get richer blacks and darker colors?  (This is referred
   to as undercolor removal in the printing business.)  Or, must each
   graphics or text object be printed with just black or just color inks?

Q: If it does, are there registration problems because the black and
   color pens are mechanically separate pens, and they may be used to
   print the same area of the page in opposite directions?

Q: Also, is there new Windows 3.X driver software for the 550C that will 
   allow users to control how black and color inks are mixed?  At present,
   there are separate windows to control black ink and color inks in the
   "Printer Setup..." menus with the DeskJet 2.0 driver software, as only
   one or the other can be used at a time in the DeskJet 500C.  What
   do those menu windows look like for the 550C?

Thanks for answering these questions, if you get a chance.  I have a
DeskJet 500C at home, and we really like it...
Bill Holland (holland@hplwdh.hpl.hp.com)
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Tuesday, 13 Oct 1992 09:28:48 CET
From: <FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP Series IV?
Distribution: na
 <92286.131909FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET>

 Subsequent to my previous posting on the spec of teh L-jet 4 I've been asked
2 other questions. Appologies to the asker, but for some reason my mailer
refused to recognise teh file as mail and treat it as an ordinary reader file.
Problem is the mailer resolves the address for me to a form I can use (read
understand), I'm unable to suss-out the address. So, without further ado I'll
answer the 2 questions and hope he sees the reply.
> Whats the Parrallel speed.
 Up to 156 KB (as it's a capital B and we are talking // I assume BYTE).
> What other interfaces are available, SCSI/Ethertalk
 Quote
 "MIO slot for HP JetDirect cards for Ethernet, Token Ring, EtherTalk or
LocalTalk networks, other connectivity solutions from HP and third parties.
"HOT" I/Os: Automatic switching between ports."

 Might as well add.
 As well as PS2 on SIMM, also emulation for Epson/IBM ProPrinter on SIMM.
 Display languages (for MENU set-up), Emglish, French, German, Spanish,
Italian, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Portugese or Dutch. Also
available, Turkish and Polish.
 Weight (stripped, no toner or options), 16.8 Kg, 37 Lb.
 Power, 90 watts standby, 660 watts Maximum,

 Any more Q's anyone.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: loesch@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Andi Loesch)
Subject: Re: What's your favorite video printer...?
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 08:22:23 GMT

I have no personal experiences, but I know of a company (my wife was
working there) that sells these beasts (also to the U.S.):

  Gammadata Computer GmbH
  Gutenbergstr. 13
W-8039 Puchheim/Bahnhof
  Phone: (+49) 89 80095-0
  Fax:   (+49) 89 80095-39

Their Gammacolor System 400 has the following features:

- screen capture time < 0.5 sec
- video band width 6.5 - 155 MHz
- may be connected to <= 16 different monitors simultaneously
- up to 12 MB RAM

They also offer digital screen dump soft and hardware.

*** I DON'T GET ANY MONEY FOR THIS HINT ***


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W-8046 Garching
From: seymour@stein.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: how to flip an IBM/Lexmark 4029-030 (with PS and 9mb) modes?
Date: 8 Oct 92 19:40:03 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Oct8.194003.29852
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1992Oct7.224243.11260@u.washington.edu> I wrote:
>ok... we've received our IBM/Lexmark 4029-030 printer
>AND its PostScript Emulation Module AND an additional 8mbytes of memory.
>and plugged it all together and told it "600dpi, please"...
>  and the Test Page is lovely (the gray drop-shadow around the box (and
>   the curve quality) shows that it -is- 600 dpi)
>BUT: it does not appear to have the ability to switch emulation modes
> from PCL 4 to PostScript (and back), other than from the Front Panel...
>IS this TRUE?
...and the answer is: NO ... you CAN switch emulations from the command
  stream.  The printer won't do it automatically, but you can do it.
   (it took a thorough reading of the Technical Manual (such as: the 
     works-every-time emulation switching is detailed (well, described)
     in the PDDS emulation section... even if you are going to be using
     the command string in PCL and/or PostScript mode.  Their PostScript
    has its own emulation-switching command, but their PCL emulation does
    NOT have one.. so you're better off using the PDDS mode (maybe))
 (and, to give credit (and brickbats) where they're due: LexMark called me
  with hints and assistance (usually correct, once we'd danced around a little
  bit (but then, describing byte ordering over the phone can be baroque...),
  and provided the nudge to invoke the printer's Hex Dump feature (which showed
  my preamble-file's typing errors (it appears to VERY difficult to create
  a file on HP-UX (i looked in their Laserrom) containing random, low, binary
  (control) characters... the LexMark required control-C and control-@ (nul)
  characters... i ended up creating the file on a VMS/VAX and ftp'ing it over))

so: for those interested: if you send the following stream of bytes
 (shown in Hex), the 4029 will change modes.  If your system throws extra
 characters into the Print Stream (as mine did...) you may need additional
 cleanup:
     1B 5B 4B 03 00 06 31 02      switches you to PCL
     1B 5B 4B 03 00 06 31 08      switches you to PostScript

--dick
From: gsady@gaffa.mcd.intel.com (Gene Sady ~)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP Paintjet XL300 and Newsprint 2.0
Date: 13 Oct 92 20:00:55 GMT
Reply-To: gsady@mcd.intel.com
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.sun
Organization: INTeL Memory Components Division

Greetings,
	Does anyone know if there is a driver available for the HP
Paintjet XL300 that will work with Newsprint 2.0?

Thanks in advance,
--

Gene Sady

gsady@mcd.intel.com - Intel Corporation - Folsom, CA

     "I wish I could write you a melody so plain
      It could hold you, dear lady, from going insane
      It could ease you and cool you and cease the pain
      Of your useless and pointless knowledge." -   Bob Dylan
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: seymour@stein.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Subject: Re: how to flip an IBM/Lexmark 4029-030 (with PS and 9mb) modes?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 23:11:06 GMT

(apologies for the bandwidth, but our school's NewImprovedSystem
 won't let me Cancel the previous article)

Further delving into the manuals divulges the existence of an
 Automatic Emulation Switching program... on PC floppies (which, of
 course i hadn't opened, since i'm not using a PC...)

it would appear (untested as of yet) that a sequence of:
  esc [ K 3 0 <mode> 49 <emulation>

Since they're not BLATANT about it, i -believe- that "6" is a safe value
 for the "mode" entry...

and then "2" gets me PCL and "8" gets me PostScript as an emulation entry.

This is on page 8-2 of the Technical Reference manual, which i found by the
 reference to it on page 4-1 of the Technical Reference manual, which i
 found from the hint on page 2-34 of the User's Guide.

(note that chasing "emulation" in the indicies thereof does NOT lead you to
 the actual command ("SIC") which can perform the operation.  All of the User
 Guide "emulation" references only mention the control panel.  Page 2-34
 is the Binary Mode Communication section...)
--dick

Xref: sparky comp.periphs.printers:2986 comp.sys.dec:5482 comp.sys.sun.hardware:5012 alt.sys.sun:3279
From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.sun.hardware,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Re: ?SCSI port on APPLE LaserWriter IINTX & UNIX
Keywords: LaserWriter,SCSI,UNIX
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:04:56 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

mike@socrates.umd.edu (Mike Santangelo) writes:

>I have inherited an APPLE LaserWriter IINTX printer.  I notice on the
>interface plate on the back it has ports for Appletalk and some kind
>of Apple desktop bus, but also an RS232C serial port and a 50 pin
>centronics style SCSI port.  The application would be to connect this
>to a Sun or DECstation (SCSI based UNIX ws).  It would be a real pity
>to drive it off of a serial port as most of the printing is postscript
>based.  Is there any way at all that anyone might know to use the SCSI
>port with either a DECstation or Sun ?  I know it has to be a matter
>of software in this case, some kind of low level driver that one would
>just write to like a tty port would obviously be the best.

>Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

Some GENIUS might be able to set up such a thing, but APPLE made the
SCSI for a hardrive(s).  The HD was meant for FONT storage and caching.

So I don't believe it is possible.  Anyway, at 19Kb/s the printing isn't
bad.  

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.os.ms-windows.setup
From: reichrt@rtsg.mot.com (Charles H. Reichert)
Subject: Re: Need DJ500C driver for Win 3.1
Organization: Motorola, Radio Telephone Systems Group
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:35:55 GMT

In article <ldop6pINNh70@oporto.cs.utexas.edu>, swisher@cs.utexas.edu (Janet M. Swisher) writes:
|> I seem to have trashed the Win 3.1 for my DeskJet 500C.  Can anyone
|> tell me where to FTP it from?  It's not on the Win 3.1 installation
|> disks; the install program asks me for a third party disk.
|> 
|> 

The drivers come with the DJ500C printer from HP.  If not contact
HP for the Drivers.  


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: acunger@socrates.umd.edu (Arnie Unger)
Subject: HP Series IV?
Keywords: Hewlett Packard printer laser HP series III IV
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 22:25:32 GMT

I heard through a fellow printer buff(er) (:-) that HP
is coming out with a Series IV before the end of the year.
Does anyone have information to support or contradict
this.  No flames please.  Thank you.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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From: prange@sdr.slb.com (Michael Prange)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Is there a spray hardener for thermal wax?
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:55:29 GMT
Reply-To: prange@sdr.slb.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Schlumberger-Doll Research

The output from our thermal wax color printer is easily damaged
by abrasions to the soft wax surface.  Is there a hardener that
I can spray on output to give it a more durable surface?

---
Michael
prange@sdr.slb.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: guy@ns.network.com (Guy D'Andrea)
Subject: HELP! Need "small" program to make "best" use of Deskjet 500 on MSDOS?
Organization: Network Systems Corporation
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 19:50:01 GMT

I am in need of a good Desktop Publishing package or Word Proc. Pkg. that makes
the BEST use of the abilities of a Deskjet 500.  I only have a T1000SE laptop:
CGA,640k ram,2.5 Meg ram disk, 1.44 3.5" floppy drive.  I know "Windows 3.x"
supports scalable fonts, Deskjet built-in fonts, etc. but the T1000SE has a
8086 in it and Windows needs at least a '286.  Anybody have any luck?  I have
found a few that use the graphics mode to get different fonts but the 
quallity isn't as nice as using the Deskjet 500's built-in fonts.  Thanks for
any info!!!

-Guy

 guy@nsco.network.com, Guy Dandrea, Network Systems Corp., Mpls. MN 55428,  USA 
                        1-800-328-9108  Fax:(612)424-1736
From: morgaine@siap.sublink.org (Nadia Pitacco (Morgaine))
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Controlling Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR from a Sun
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:05:22 GMT
Reply-To: morgaine@siap.sublink.org
Organization: SIAP Sistemi S.p.A.


  I'm using an Apple Personal LaserWriter NTR to print from a
  Sun SPARCstation 330 through a serial line. 
  I would like to be able to tell the printer to use the
  "manual feed" instead of the paper tray that is the default.

  I think I need to add to my Postscript file some printer-specific
  command. 

  Does anyone knows which command(s)?

  Thanks in advance.

 	                                                 Nadia Pitacco
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: elmquist@pez.ssesco.com (Chris Elmquist)
Subject: What's your favorite video printer...?
Organization: SSESCO
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:06:34 GMT

Looking for comments on RGB connected color video printers that can 
reproduce 1280x1024 (or better) resolution.  Imaging technology is
not of great concern at this time as long as the resolution is
maintained.

The ideal printer would allow the image capture to be triggered by
signaling from a external connection such as RS232 or parallel Centronics
(as opposed to manually pushing a button).  A real plus would to be 
able to control the placement and size of the imaged window (subset of full
screen) through this same channel.

Any comments ?

Chris

Chris Elmquist, N0JCF
elmquist@SSESCO.com
73267.2711@Compuserve.com
(612)342-0003@work (8am-5pm CST6CDT)
From: flavio@cflav.sublink.org (Flavio Casetta)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: BJ300 and RAM expansion cards
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:40:52 GMT
Organization: Flavio Casetta, Reg'd HP ISV & OEM of handheld computers.

Hello everybody,

I purchased a BJ300 and I would like to know if the 128K RAM card is worth
buying.

Moreover I suspect that the RAM card is PCMCIA compatible.
Does anybody know something about ?


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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: seymour@stein.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour)
Subject: how to flip an IBM/Lexmark 4029-030 (with PS and 9mb) modes?
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 22:42:43 GMT

ok... we've received our IBM/Lexmark 4029-030 printer
AND its PostScript Emulation Module
AND an additional 8mbytes of memory.

and plugged it all together and told it "600dpi, please"...
  and the Test Page is lovely (the gray drop-shadow around the box (and
   the curve quality) shows that it -is- 600 dpi)

BUT: it does not appear to have the ability to switch emulation modes
 from PCL 4 to PostScript (and back), other than from the Front Panel...

IS this TRUE?

The manual set is of the "you receive that chapter until you buy that 
 option" style... so we can't tell if the "Printer Sharing Option" (or
 any of the others) would solve the problem.  But it is disappointing
 to see such a broad-spectrum-emulating printer be so limited.

we're running it on an HP 9000/710 under HP-UX v8.07
we've attached it via the parallel port.
The HP does screen dumps in PCL, yet most of our application programs
 speak PostScript, hence the desire for (quasi-) automatic changeover.
The users are sprinkled throughout the building, so reaching the front
 panel is -NOT- convenient.

thanks
---dick
From: neff@vcd.hp.com (Dave Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Date: 13 Oct 92 17:26:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: vcd.Bw2Lst.1FL
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


>Dave Neff offered to answer some questions about the 550C if they were
>posted here, so here goes:

>Q: Does the DeskJet 550C firmware or driver software mix the black ink
>   with the cyan, magenta, and yellow inks when printing color graphics
>   or images, to get richer blacks and darker colors?  (This is referred
>   to as undercolor removal in the printing business.)  Or, must each
>   graphics or text object be printed with just black or just color inks?
Yes, the black and color inks are mixed.

>Q: If it does, are there registration problems because the black and
>   color pens are mechanically separate pens, and they may be used to
>   print the same area of the page in opposite directions?
An excellent question.  There are registration problems which are
addressed by a user pen alignment process which should be done whenever
a new pen (black or color) is inserted.  The pen alignment offsets
computed via the user alignment is stored in non volatile memory so
the printer can be powered on and off without realigning.  The alignment
process is very simple, takes about 1 to 2 minutes, and our user testing
showed that customers didn't mind doing it.


>Q: Also, is there new Windows 3.X driver software for the 550C that will 
>   allow users to control how black and color inks are mixed?  At present,
>   there are separate windows to control black ink and color inks in the
>   "Printer Setup..." menus with the DeskJet 2.0 driver software, as only
>   one or the other can be used at a time in the DeskJet 500C.  What
>   do those menu windows look like for the 550C?

Yes there is a new Windows 3.X driver which allows selecting to use
the color pen only to create black (DeskJet 500 mode), to always use
the black pen whenever there is black, and to "minimize ink mixing"
which actually uses a blend of mostly black ink with a little bit
of color ink to create black.  This later mode still gives a good black
but reduces black to color ink bleed.  As for what exactly the new
menu windows look like, the user interface has lots of new options for
dithering and selection of what type of black to use -- it is too
complicated in my opinion but is quite flexible.

And to answer an anticipated question:

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.

Dave Neff
neff@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com
From: sp_pm@space.alcbel.be (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Error repost: How to print ASCII files on a postscript printer?
Date: 8 Oct 92 18:33:18 GMT
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Hello,

We have several Brother HL-8PS printer here. They can be configured to work either in Postscript mode or in HP LaserJet III mode of operation, by means
of front-panel selectable options.

This means that we have to change the mode of operation at the printer's front panel in order to go from Postscript mode to HP LaserJet mode, and vice versa. Is there any way, such as by means of using a printer filter or some such (I don't know anything about printer filters), to be able to print both ASCII text files and Postscript files?

Please respond by email, as I don't have access to the News.

Thanks, Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: richard@dxcern.cern.ch (Richard Schweitzer)
Subject: LaserJet III memory expansion
Keywords: memory,laser,pins
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
Distribution: 'world'
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:06:34 GMT

Could anybody e-mail me the pin allocation of the 2 expansions memory boards
for a HP laserJet III laser printer.
richard SCHWEITZER email: richard@cernvm.cern.ch
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers