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From: kayser@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Susan E. Kayser NSSDC/STX (301)513-1673)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Escape sequences to change ink cartridge on HP DJ500C
Date: 27 Aug 92 20:41:00 GMT
Organization: NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Aug27.100902.20244@city.cs>, lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes...
>rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma) writes:
>>If you simply send it data to print, it assumes black cartridge. I see
>>this regularly when I want to print a colour file and accidentally leave
>>the printer script set to print headers - the darned thing asks for the
>>black ink cartridge for the header, then the colour cart. for the data.
>>When the colour file is done, if I print again, it will always ask for
>>the black ink next unless the file is specifically colour graphics...
> 
>Does this mean that if I want to do some desktop publishing with
>98% black text and a little bit of colour for effect, I can use
>the black cartridge and it will ask me for the colour cartridge
>when its time to print colour?
> 
>It seemed a design fault that you could not have the black and
>the colour catridges on-line at the same time.

A new version of the HP DeskWriter 500C (the Mac version) is due out 
soon that will have all 4 colors available at once.  Presumably the PC 
version will also be upgraded. 

Susan Kayser		NCF::KAYSER  or  kayser%nssdca.span@star.stanford.edu
Hughes/STX at NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
Greenbelt, MD
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: "Tony C. Cheng" <tcheng@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Subject: QuadRam Color Printer
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:12:07 GMT

Does anyone have information on a QuadRam color Quadjet printer.  I need to find
ink wells and setup information.

_Tony C. Cheng
From: elmo@netcom.com (Eliot Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP Laserjet Font Cartridge Duplication
Date: 31 Aug 92 22:22:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


I have several home-grown fonts which I had placed on HP cartridges
several years ago.  I would like to duplicate the cartridges.  Is
there a means for the end user to copy his own cartridges, or a
"blank" cartridge which one can download to and save the contents?

elmo

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Eliot Moore - elmo@netcom.com, POB 1431 Santa Monica CA 90406
From: paul2@dcs.exeter.ac.uk (Paul Day)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Can anyone recommend good postscript + ethernet printers?
Date: 26 Aug 92 13:44:22 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. - University of Exeter. UK



we want to buy a postscript laser printer with ethernet capability and
we don't *really* want to buy an APPLE FG (or any apple at all !!)

What alternatives are available and what can anyone recommend?

Thanks, in advance, Paul
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From: mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Conor McMenamin)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Problem printing full page on DeskJet 500
Date: 20 Aug 92 10:45:13 GMT
Organization: University of Sussex

Just in case anyone else had this problem....it turned out to be a
cross-post as the problem was at the DOS end rather than the printer
end. The question was:

mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Conor McMenamin) writes:
: Hi,
: 	I am having a problem printing from a PC to a HP DeskJet 500.
: The files I am printing are Ghostscript output, made with
: -sDEVICE=djet500, of graphs in postscript. I send the files to the
: printer using the command 'type [filename] > prn'. The printer then
: begins to print. After a few seconds I get the DOS prompt again on the
: PC, and just after this the printer stops printing. The paper remains in
: the printer and the 'Busy' light on the printer remains on, but no more
: happens. Only about half of the full page of the graph is printed, and I
: have to press 'Reset' on the printer to get the paper out and get the
: Busy light off.
: 
: 	Does anybody know how I can get the full page printed out? I am
: using a version of ghostscript on a UNIX machine, and then writing the
: file to PC format disks, but I think the format must be OK as the half a
: page I get is exactly as it should be.

The answer is: use 'copy /b [filename] prn' the /b indicates a binary
transfer to the printer. The problem was probably an end of file
character in the binary file causing type to stop, copy /b will write
the correct number of bytes (ie the whole file!).

	Sorry for cross-posting again, it's just in case anyone had
experienced similar problems and wanted a solution....

		Conor
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: jdc@selway.umt.edu (diskmunchin')
Subject: Postscript Cartridge on HP IIIP (&Softfonts)
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: HP IIIP postscript softfonts
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 17:54:52 GMT

I'm interested in expanding the typefaces available to me in on an HP LaserJet
IIIP.  Options I've found so far:

	Upgrade to Win 3.1, buy lots of Win software, and use Truetype.

		Well, actually, this is for my mother who doesn't want
		to learn a "whole damn new way of doing things....I'm
		in a hurry."

	Buy Softfont packages for WordPerfect (DOS).
		This can get expensive in a hurry, unless I find a package
		with LOTS of fonts for a little $. Suggestions?

	Install a Postscript cartridge on the LaserJet.

The big question:  If I do the latter, can I use the Postscript fonts available
via FTP from CICA and other sites (including Mac Postscript after appropriate
conversion).  My understanding is that with the Postscript Cartridge, the
LaserJet will think it's an Apple LaserWriter.

Thanks for any suggestions,
					John-David Childs
					Consultant, University of Montana CIS
					con_jdc@selway.umt.edu
From: jeffs@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Request: Please send FAQ if there is one
Date: 29 Aug 92 11:47:48 GMT
Article-I.D.: matt.17ora4INN5c
Distribution: inet
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Please send me any sort of FAQ's there are for this newsgroup.
In particular I am looking forward to purchasing a laser printer.
Is it wise to stick with Hewlett Packard or are other brands ok??

I just found out that our campus bookstore is going to be selling
Hewlett Packard laser printers at an educational discount.  We will
see how discounted it is.  They are starting Monday or Tuesday of
next week.

THanks.

Jeff Smith
jeffs@matt.ksu.ksu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: hiroki@AIX (Hiroki Morizono)
Subject: WP4.2(or5.1)->Ethertalk->UnixQueue->WPformat hardcopy?
Reply-To: hiroki@limerick.cbs.umn.edu
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:16:22 GMT

I have an antique (640K, big floppies,monochrome, DOS3something)
Leading Edge with an EtherTalk card in it,
and am using WordPerfect 4.2.
Card is configured so I can use it to telnet, ftp, and it works fine.
I'd like to be able to print from WordPerfect, and have it print to a printer
attached to a Unix box, using a minimal number of intermediate steps.
Right now I've been hating vi, and scribing in a telnet session, or
ftp-ing up flat text, and scribing, then lpr-ing. 
Any good solutions?
Will I be able to keep my formatting? (formatting
a relative bonus vs getting stuff to the printer.)
CAP is running on the workstation, so ethernetted or local talk macs
think that the printer is a laserwriter. 
Is there something similar for MSDOS? 

I'd prefer software solutions if possible, but am interested in 
what sorts of reviews people have for other ways of kludging a
psuedo printer. 

Thanks in advance,
Hiroki Morizono
Department of Biochemistry
University of Minnesota
hiroki@limerick.cbs.umn.edu
From: arcpau02@uctvax.uct.ac.za (Paul Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Commodore serial Printer to IBM PC??
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:27:55 +0200
Organization: University of Cape Town

I have a Commodore compatible serial printer that I used many years ago with my
Commodore 64. The printer still works fine, but who wants to use it on a C-64
nowadays?! Does anybody know how I can interface it to my IBM PC?

Thanks in advance...

Paul Archer       (ARCPAU02@uctvax.uct.ac.za)

  University of Cape Town
  South Africa.
From: roy@issy.cnet.fr
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: FIBRE400
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:47:12 GMT
Organization: Centre National d'Etudes des Telecommunications

Is ther anybody who has some experiment on FIBRE400, a software from
XEROX which convert PostScript files into InterPress to print them
on a 4050 Printer.

I have to evaluate this product and not too much informations from     
XEROX France.

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From: na0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Nicolas Alejandro Arauz)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: laserjet streaking -- help!
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:00:00 GMT
Organization: Junior, Architecture, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

We have an old LaserJet II that seems as if it's starting to streak. 
Even if we print a blank page, we see the streaks.  What is the cause of
this?  Does anyone know?  Is it the cartridge?  Would it go away with a
new one?  Or is there something we can clean, perhaps?  Or do we just
have to bring it down to a professional to get it repaired?  I'd really
like it to be a simple solution that I can fix myself, if possible. 
Thanks in advance for any help you guys can give me.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Subject: Re: How do you drive an HP-500C without a bitmap?
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 03:48:23 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1.3 PL5

If you have a Unix machine (haven't seen a DOS version that has all the
right stuff yet) and the latest ghostscript, there should be DeskJet 500C
support in it. I have found that the device "cdeskjet" works best and 
"djet500c" has problems.

I use the following korn shell script:

    if [ $# -eq 0 ]
    then
	gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=cdeskjet -r300 -sOUTPUTFILE='|lp -d<device> -oraw' -
    else
	gs -dQUIET -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=cdeskjet -r300 -sOUTPUTFILE='|lp -d<device> -oraw' $@ quit.ps
    fi

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom Division
From: hudgens@SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: old honeywell printer
Date: 26 Aug 92 12:19:32 GMT
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University


I just aquired an old Honeywell printer.  It's only marking is 
"Honeywell ZCS-R34".  Seems to work, but the ribbon is shot.  Anyone
have any info on this old beast?   Like where to get a new ribbon?
Luckily all the DIPs are pretty well documented.  I think Honeywell is
part of Bull these days,  but that's about all I know.  I checked
some of the  usual ribbon suppliers, though they listed Honeywell, 
none listed the ZCS-R34 or anything remotely similar.  

Anyone?

-JHH

Its an industrial grade printer.  They sure don't make printers like
this anymore! :-). 



--
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hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu      

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: Peter Purgathofer <purgi@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Mixed Network, and one printer
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6CD96C25E02B604@4.182.130.128.in-addr.arpa>
X-Xxdate: Fri, 4 Sep 92 22: 42:10 GMT
Organization: Institute for Assessment and Design of Technology
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 20:42:16 GMT

Hello everybody.

I have a problem that keeps me up at night since days, and I dont want to
get used to this.

We have a mixed network consisting of a lot of macs, partly connected via
ethertalk, partly via appletalk, talking with each other thru the apple
router software. We further have some PCs with ethernet-cards and a NeXT
with build-in ethernet connection.

Further we purchased a device named "EtherPrint" from Dayna, which
connects all Macs with Ethernet-Cards to the LaserJet printer via
EtherTalk.

I am supposed to set up this network, so that everybody can print to the
LaserJet. 

Is this possible with this setup. My fear is, that the Etherprint device
was a wrong decision. Would it be better to connect the laserjet to the
NeXT, and print to the UNIX machine? Where could I get Software for this
setup (PC, Mac)?

One of the major problems is (further), that I cant figure out the
hadrware-ethernet adress of the etherprint-decvice. I used the
installation software, i opened the box, i danced around it, nothing gave
me the instant knowledge of its address. 

So, if anybody out there in netland has had similar problems, or maybe
just an idea how to help me, please answer, or email to
root@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at. 

Thanx in advance,

Peter Purgathofer
Institute for Design and Assessment of Technology
Technical University of Vienna/Dep. Comp. Science


"ROMANES EUNT DOMUS"    (Brian)
From: fparnold@bach.udel.edu (Frederick P Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Refills for HPLJ III
Date: 26 Aug 92 14:38:39 GMT
Organization: University of Delaware


Greetings.  My office is involved with producing data for publication by
various journals, and as a result, tends to print in volumes of 500 pages
per week or more.  In an attempt to reduce our costs somewhat, we have
been using refilled laserjet cartridges from LaserResearch, with less than
optimal results in terms of cartridge life and a tendency for artifacts to
appear near the end of the cartridges life.  What are other people's 
experiences with refills vs. OEM cartridges?

If this is a FAQ, would someone please be kind enough to mail me the file,
so as to reduce bandwidth?  Thank you for your time.

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: sfy@koel.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Shane Youl)
Subject: Refilling Canon BJ 10ex cartridges
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 02:30:49 GMT

Has anyone had any success with refilling the cartridges for the Canon
bubble jet BJ-10e? What type of ink is required?

ADVthanksANCE....Shane
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: bell@EKBEXT.sps.mot.com (David Bell)
Subject: HP PaintJet
Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
Reply-To: bell@ekbext.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola European Semiconductor Products Sector
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 12:31:35 GMT

I have a HP PaintJet which I wish to connect to the serial port of a SUN 3/80.

I wasn't expecting a smooth ride, and falling the pin connections from both
manuals (HP PaintJet Color Graphics Printer & SUN System Network and
Administration) achieved a garbled mess on the printer. Rather than risk wrecking
the printer, can anyone suggest to me the "best" DIP switch settings (i.e. DTR or
XON-XOFF ) and what the cable connections should be. A printcap entry would be an
extra.

Thanks for the effort in advance ... email will be summarised to the net
if there is sufficient response.


Dave


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From: rcaliari@su5v.ess.harris.com (Richard Caliari)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: What is an XL770?
Date: 26 Aug 92 15:35:04 GMT
Organization: Harris Semiconductor, Melbourne  FL

I have received a request to configure some systems with XL770
color printers. My contact is out of town for 2 weeks, and I would like
to receive more information on the printers. My problem is that I have
a model number (XL770) without the manufacturer's name. Any help
identifying this printer would be appreciated (e-mail to address
below).

Thanks in advance!
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email: rcaliari@su5v.ess.harris.com
From: cf@fokus.gmd.de (C. Fuhrhop)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Canon LBP-A I - Anyone willing to help?
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:05:40 GMT
Organization: GMD-Fokus (Berlin)

A friend of mine has got some problems with a Canon LBP-A I
printer (seems to be an older model). Looks like he has to
do a driver for it and hasn't got a manual or something.

Anyway, is there anyone out there who knows this printer
and is willing to help him by answering a few questions?

His e-mail address is wuerz-w@vax.hmi.dbp.de

Thank's a lot
Christian
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: Chris_Chase@spacemail.jhuapl.edu (Christopher J. Chase)
Subject: HPGL to Postscript translator
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: The Applied Physics Lab
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 92 14:20:26 GMT

I need a translator for HPGL to postscript. Could someone give me a pointer
or hint as to where I might find one? (preferably for UNIX, but for DOS or
a MAC would be okay).

Thanks,
Chris Chase
From: jeffs@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeff Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HELP: dot matrix printhead is bad, I think???
Date: 2 Sep 1992 22:18:16 -0500
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

I've never had a print head go bad on a dot matrix printer.  I have
an Epson L-1000 (its a 24 pin standard LQ series).  It seems
to be missing one row of pins just a little above the middle.
It makes the text look kind of funny and when it is reverse printing,
you can see a very small white line on the black block.

Is this the symptoms of a bad print head???  Are those replaceable
and about how much???  Within the next 2 weeks I was going to get
a laser printer anyways, I guess I have a good excuse to spend
the money now!!  But I was hoping to keep the dot matrix around
to do quick dumps where I didn't need laser.

E-Mail or post is fine. Thanks!!

Jeff Smith
jeffs@matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: huober_r@hal.rz.uni-ulm.de (Reiner Huober)
Subject: Getting page info from HPLJ-IIIsi (postscript) 
Keywords: HP Laserjet IIIsi postscript
Organization: Universitaet Ulm
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:29:05 GMT

Hi there,

we have a HP Laserjet IIIsi connect to ttyb of a Sun Sparc 2
running SunOS4.1.2. Recently I got a ethernet card for the
printer from HP for a few weeks for test purposes, but now we
have it connected again by a serial line (9600baud). 

Before I installed and used the ethernet card, I could use
something like this to get the postscript pagecount over
the serial line:

     % cat </dev/ttyb &
     % stty -echo >/dev/ttyb
     % cat >/dev/ttyb
     /str 20 string def
     statusdict begin 
     (Pagecount: ) print pagecount str cvs print
     end
     <CTRL-D>
     %

This little script yielded a line like "Pagecount: 435",
but now (after I deinstalled ethernet and use ttyb again,
this doesn't work any more. Does anybody know how I can
correct this problem.

Thanks a lot
Reiner Huober
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu (Oliver Weatherbee)
Subject: Re: HELP: Is printer with 512K for real ?
Reply-To: oliver@earthview.cms.udel.edu
Organization: Marine Studies, University of Delaware
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 11:58:19 GMT

The Epson is your best bet out of those three choices because it has the faster engine at 6 ppm (text only) but you will definitely benifit by increasing the memory. you can get an empty memory board for it for about $45, which takes non-propriatary memory. not SIMMS but Dram chips which are cheaper anyway.

O

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones)
Subject: Character widths for CG Times (HP) font
Organization: UTCS Public Access
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 19:46:09 GMT

Is there a utility that will tell me the widths of the
CG Times font built into the HP printers (LJ III and DJ 500)
Maybe one that reads the windows .fon file, or maybe there is
a place that has this information already.

tj
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Subject: Re: EPSON software emulation for HP Laserjet
Reply-To: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 19:12:51 GMT

re: epson emulation

I might add that there is an epson/ibmproprinter emulation called
psfx from Legend Communications that allows a tsr to 
provide postscript emulation for software that only has
epson or proprinter output, and allows postscript output from
other programs to flow to the printer normally. It works fine.

    Norm Buchignani/University of Lethbridge/BUCHIGNANI@HG.ULETH.CA
"If we have been accustomed to deplore the spectacle...of a workman occupied
during his whole life in nothing else but the making of knife-handles or pins'
heads, we may find something quite as lamentable in the intellectual class, in
the exclusive employment of a human brain in resolving some equations, or in
classifying insects. [This] occasions a miserable indifference about the
general course of human affairs, as long as there are equations to solve and
pins to manufacture."                                      Auguste Comte
From: bedi@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Rupinder S. Bedi)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Help with printer info...
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:08:49 GMT
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of California, Davis

Has anyone heard of the PCPI Laserimage 1030ps printer?
Someone on another group posted this info on this printer and
I was wondering if I should getit or not.  I can't afford
an expensive printer and I'll probably only use it for basic
ascii and Pagmaker4.0 stuff...

PCPI Laserimage 1030ps 
35 Postscript compatible fonts
HPLJII compatible w/LJ B cartridge built in
Special offer with registration of warrenty: toner cart...$8

total = $789!!!!


Any help would be greatly appreciated.  
TIA, Rupi
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: gaissmai@rzmain.rz.uni-ulm.de (Karl Gaissmaier)
Subject: WANTED: dvi2laserjet3plus or laserjet3si under Unix
Keywords: dvi-drivers, TeX, dvi
Organization: Universitaet Ulm
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 13:49:53 GMT

Hello

i'm looking for an dvi-to-laserjet3+ or laserjet3si driver running
under Ultrix or SunOs.

thanks for any hints
Charly
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