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From: macllstr@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP Laserjet 4: how to use parallel interface only?
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:31:56 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

My HP Laserjet 4 has a serial interface and a parallel interface. That's all.
The serial interface works without trouble.
The parallel interface won't work without something connected to the serial
 port. However, if there's any I/O on the serial interface, the parallel
 interface 'dies' from that that point onwards.
I've tried forcing the serial interface into a 'connected mode' using
 loopbacks with a break-out box without success.
The parallel interface is effectively unusable.
The problem appears to lie in the automatic I/O switching. 
In the HP Laserjet 4 User's Manual it states:
 'automatic I/O switching can be disabled from the control panel' (Page 2-9)
This would appear to be the solution to my particular problem as I only want
 to use the printer with one interface - the parallel one for greater
 throughput.
However, details on how to do this are missing from the manual and nobody -
 including HP ! - has been able to tell me how ... yet.

Does anyone have details of the magic dance to perform on the control panel
 to disable automatic I/O switching? 

John
From: bob@bdofed.UUCP (n)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Tower and Epson printer
Date: 16 Dec 92 03:32:00 GMT
Organization: Etobicoke Board of Education, Ontario


Hi,
I have a problem with an Epson LQ-510 printer. I have it connected 
via the EML CU4X serial card.
	Parameters:
			9600
			7 bit
			even
			Software flow control

	System:		NCR Tower.

When we print about 6 pages the printer hangs after 3 pages. Turning the
printer off and on does clear the problem. Offline and On line does
not clear the problem. Killing all the processes that have the line
open does not clear the line. I can not echo to the line. The only
way to clear the line is to reboot the system.

The interface script is setup to 7 bit Even xon.

I have no idea why this will not work. If you have any suggestions
Please reply.
	thanx
		bob	(uunet.ca!bdofed!bob)

Xref: sparky comp.periphs.printers:3655 comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:15889
From: d92-mva@nada.kth.se (Martin Valldeby)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Centronics PagePrinter 8 ???
Date: 16 Dec 92 15:37:18 GMT
Reply-To: d92-mva@nada.kth.se (Martin Valldeby)
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Originator: d92-mva@alv.nada.kth.se

This is my second post since I got no replies on the first.
Is there a printer called as mentioned in the subject, I was told it is a 
laser printer, am I right?

Are there drivers for Windows 3.1, WordPerfect 5.1 and other PC-software?
Is the printer compatible with HP PCL or PostScript?

Thanks...

E-mail answers would be appreciated!

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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet
Subject: Re: Notepad in MS-Windows and HP laserjet 4 driver
Reply-To: cs5059@albnyvms.bitnet
Organization: University of NY at Albany
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 08:19:26 GMT

In article <24462@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, diamond@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com (Warren R. Diamond) writes:
>
>Just got my new HP LJ 4 printer. Hooked it up to a Gateway 486dx2,
>downloaded the lj4 printer driver from the MS BBS, and then tried
>to print a small text file from Notepad while in MS Windows 3.1
>
>Every time it prints, the first 4 characters from each line are missing.
>I tried printing using the HP IIIp driver instead and no problem. All
>characters show up with the IIIp driver.
>
>Has anyone else tried the lj4 driver with Notepad and seen this problem.
>Is there an obvious setting or non-obvious setting to try.
>
>By the way, things print perfectly fine with MS-Write, and from
>the DOS command line using (ie. dir>prn).
>
>You'd like to be able to print from Notepad as that is the preferred
>editor for examining your sys.ini, win.ini, *.ini, config.sys etc.
>
>Warren R. Diamond
>diamond@vulcan1.edsg.hac.com

I too have a problem printing from notepad.
In my case it prints a four digit number in front of each
line.  If I remember correctly it is 0080 in brackets [ ].
I am yet to be able to print from notepad, but also am able to use
write.  In fact all other printing programs work fine, its just notepad.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tsen0001@student.tc.umn.edu ()
Subject: LaserTwin 5.0, a PCL emulation printer software.
Organization: University of Minnesota
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:51:35 GMT

Does anyone have any good or bad experiences with LaserTwin 5.0 from Metro
Software?  LaserTwin 5.0 is supposed to offer PCL emulation for all graphics
printers.  Either reply or e-mail is fine,  thanks in advance.
From: ghenzie@hsc.usc.edu (Gregory M. Henzie)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: LaserJet 4: How much memory do I need?!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 18:20:23 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu


I recently purchased the much raved about LaserJet 4.  I got it
with 6 megs of RAM which I was led to believe would be enough for
full page graphics at 600 DPI.  This isn't the case.  Mixing text
and graphics is no problem, but if I go to print a full page high-
resolution graphics image, I get a memory overflow error.  Anyone
know just how much memory I need to add to get rid of this message
permanently?  (The minimum amount necessary!)
 
Thanks.


-- 
--
  "No matter how much you shake it, the last drop always goes down your leg."

                           ghenzie@phad.hsc.usc.edu
From: br@cs.cmu.edu (Bill Ross)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: WANTED: Super Printer
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:46:47 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.BzDx60.93A.2
Reply-To: br@cs.cmu.edu
Organization: CMU Vision and Autonomous Systems Center


  AAAARRRGHH!!  I'm sick of waiting 20 minutes for my 5 MB
  postscript files to print.  I'm ready to PAY and PAY BIG
  to have a *FAST* postscript machine that can chew up huge
  jobs and scornfully spit them out as fast as I can load 
  paper in the machine!

  Desirable Characteristics of SUPER PRINTER:

	At _least_ 10 pages per minute
	At _least_ 5MB memory
	Some *WAY FAST* processor on board
	Postscript and a bizillion fonts
	Ethernet interface supporting networked Suns
	Better than average resolution and print quality

  Pleeeaase recommend a machine for me!

  Thanks!
  Bill Ross
  br@cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: leclercm@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Leclerc Marco)
Subject: HP Desk Jet
Organization: Universite de Montreal
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 04:12:29 GMT

Hello all.

I'd like to have some infos. Is that printer , HP DJ, is a good printer? Is it fast enough? And is there a better/faster/etc printer in the same price range?

Thanks

Marco
leclercm@brise.ere.umontreal.ca
From: FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: LaserJet 4: How much memory do I need?!
Date: 15 Dec 92 16:28:42 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)


 Theoretically 4MB should handle ANY full-page graphics. BUT, in IIISi
you can set Page-protect, have you this on. It would then build 2 pages at
once. Also the PS interpretter requires some memory.
Xref: sparky comp.periphs.printers:3672 comp.lang.postscript:6031
From: hopper@cs.ucsd.edu (Steve Hopper)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: LaserWriter IIg ROM upgrade problem
Date: 18 Dec 92 00:18:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: sdcc12.42684
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: CSE Dept., U.C. San Diego
Originator: hopper@empyrean.ucsd.edu


We had two LW IIg printers' ROM upgraded and discovered that the 
ethertalk port was subsequently nonfunctional.  The localtalk and 
serial ports are still ok though.  We reverted back to the original
firmware (and jumper setting) and still had no e/talk capability. 

The printer goes through the normal powerup light-blinking routine,
and prints out a test page as LaserWriter IIg (we can change the name
with the new LaserWriter Utility via localtalk).  

The LW Util and CAP can't see the printer when connected via e/talk,
but there are no problems when connected via serial & localtalk.

Has anyone had similar experiences with the IIg firmware u/g, or have
any suggestions?

Is there some ps code we can send to the printer to enable the e/talk
port again, or perform diagnostics to ascertain what the malfunction
is?


Steve
From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP Laserjets under Unix
Date: 16 Dec 1992 22:20:38 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: boris.wpd.sgi.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Alan F. Perry (esprit@netcom.com) wrote:

> As it is, you have to have a filter, either to map the LF to CR-LF or a

If you are hooking the printer to a serial port, then you can:

 - (for SysV) add the line "stty onlcr <&1" to the model file for the
   printer

 - (for BSD) add the CRMOD flag (00020) to the bits in "fs" capability
   in the /etc/printcap entry (to map LF into CR-LF on output). See the
   printcap(4) man page.
--
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Silicon Graphics Inc.			Phone:	+1-415-390-2072
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Add memory for HP DJ500 ?
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 00:19:54 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

tsen0001@student.tc.umn.edu wrote:
> >Doesn't the DeskJet driver give you the option to send TrueType as soft
> >fonts or graphics (I KNOW the LaserJet drivers have the option)?
> 
> Would you please tell me where to specify this option in the LaserJet setup?
> or which versions of LaserJet drivers have this option?  I have Universal
> printer driver ver. 3.1.1, LaserJet 500+ v. 2.0  Thanks in advance.
>
Damn, I should know better than to make sweeping statements like that.

Can't do it for the older printer (pre-LJII) drivers.  In the drivers for
post-LJII LaserJets, it's a box to check in the driver Setup.../Options... 
(the box, if checked, specifies that the driver is to send TrueType fonts
as graphics - the default is to use soft fonts).

Not sure why the 500+ driver doesn't have it, I'm pretty sure soft fonts
were supported that far back.  You may want to ask Microsoft to enhance
the driver.
From: limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM)
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:19:21 GMT
Subject: Re: Add memory for HP DJ500 ?
Organization: HP Singapore Notes-Server
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers

| I just purchased a DJ500 for use at home.  Most of my printing is
| with Windows apps using True Type fonts.  I would like to know if
| windows would take advantage of the added memory for downloading
| fonts. I know that the window printer setup allow specification 
| of the amount of installed memory but how is this information used?
| 
| Would I gain any speed or quality for normal use?

The answer is yes & no!

You can make use of the added memory to download fonts that you
use very often. How to get them in there is another subject by 
itself.

You also have to configure the printer driver to recognize and
use them. Either by directly accessing the specific fonts or
forcing the printer driver to substitute them.

If you do all these correctly, your text will be printed as 
TEXT rather than graphics and YES, you will see a SPEED UP.
And if you use HP fonts which has been individually hand
tuned for the DJ, there will be a QUALITY IMPROVEMENT too!

I used to do that for Wordstar & Prestige font on Windows 
but has since given that up (too much work).

Regards
Richard Lim     "A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking"
=========================================Em2.SGP.HP.C EE)
Telnet:k0/30
From: fins@radgumbo.Eng.Sun.COM (Rich Schiavi)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Duplex Postscript printer??
Date: 14 Dec 1992 19:58:59 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: fins@radgumbo.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: radgumbo.eng.sun.com

I was looking for information (makes/models/pricing/etc) 
on PostScript (Level 2) printers which support duplexing.

Any information greatly appreciated. . .

---

Thanks,

Rich Schiavi
fins@radgumbo.Eng.Sun.COM
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: maltasr@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Robert Maltas)
Subject: Epson LX-800 --- For sale: Give me your best offer
Organization: California State University, Sacramento
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 19:24:35 GMT


Robert Maltas
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Add memory for HP DJ500 ?
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 18:17:43 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Clarence Dold (dold@unislc.uucp) wrote:
> Some font drivers send the print page as a graphics image.  All of the fonts
> can be manipulated at will, since they never exist in the printer as fonts,
> just a graphics printout.
<snip>
> This is the method that Windows uses.  It will gain nothing from a RAM
> cartridge.
> 
Doesn't the DeskJet driver give you the option to send TrueType as soft
fonts or graphics (I KNOW the LaserJet drivers have the option)?
From: walver@kielo.uta.fi (Ville V. Walveranta)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: IBM 4029 laser and 4079 ink experience?
Date: 16 Dec 92 01:41:00 GMT
Reply-To: walver@uta.fi (Ville Walveranta)
Organization: University of Tampere, Finland
In-reply-to: mike@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP's message of 11 Dec 92 17:28:15 GMT

mike@lynx.msc.cornell.edu.UUCP wrote in comp.periphs.printers:

> Anyone have any experience with the 600x600 IBM 4029 printer or the
> 360x360 4079 color ink-jet?  We would be interested in any problems
> or perfomance comments about these.

        I recently purchased a laser printer and IBM 4029 was one of the
        options. I actually bought it and tried it out one night; after
        which I returned it. My conclusion was: not good enough for that
        much money.

        I ended up with LaserMaster WinPrinter 800 my primary need was
        high resolution (and not so much the speed or compatability with
        different computers). I'm very satsified with this, however,
        should I not have considered the cost at all, I'd probably
        bought the new HP LaserJet 4 and added a LaserMaster card to it
        to achieve 1200 dpi.

        -- Willy
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rypma@waterloo.hp.com (Ted Rypma)
Subject: Re: Add memory for HP DJ500 ?
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:47:16 GMT
Organization: HP Panacom Div Waterloo ON Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Dennis Peterson (dennis@pete.uucp) wrote:
: 
: I just purchased a DJ500 for use at home.  Most of my printing is
: with Windows apps using True Type fonts.  I would like to know if
: windows would take advantage of the added memory for downloading
: fonts.

: Would I gain any speed or quality for normal use?

No to both questions. The DeskJet printers use their memory cartridges
only for soft fonts - if you're not using them, don't waste the money
on RAM. Windows can, I believe, use internal soft fonts but does much
better with TrueType and other such fonts.

Ted Rypma
HP Panacom Division
Waterloo, Ontario

(speaking entirely for himself)
From: Martin_Reed@next.com (Martin Reed)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: QMS PS410 - good buy?
Date: 17 Dec 92 13:29:34 GMT

Hello,

My wife's company is about to purchase a QMS PS410. Anyone got any horror  
stories (or good tales, for that matter)? They have a light duty cycle  
(~500 sheets a month), need good print quality, will be driving it from  
Ventura 4 under MessyWindows 3.1 (oops, sorry, personal bias slipping in  
there :-). They have found it performs to spec (ie 4ppm) whereas a  
LaserJet-4 does about 1ppm with their documents.

Thanks
	Martin Reed, mreed@next.com
From: ghenzie@hsc.usc.edu (Gregory M. Henzie)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: LaserJet 4: How much memory do I need?!
Date: 15 Dec 1992 22:11:12 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu


> I recently purchased the much raved about LaserJet 4.  I got it
> with 6 megs of RAM which I was led to believe would be enough for
> full page graphics at 600 DPI.  This isn't the case.  Mixing text
> and graphics is no problem, but if I go to print a full page high-
> resolution graphics image, I get a memory overflow error.  Anyone
> know just how much memory I need to add to get rid of this message
> permanently?  (The minimum amount necessary!)

Thanks to everyone who replied to my plea!  I've solved the problem.
I had the Graphics mode set to HP-GL/2 rather than Raster in the printer
driver options.  Since I set the graphics mode to raster, I've been able
to do everything flawlessly.

Thanks again.


-- 
--
  "No matter how much you shake it, the last drop always goes down your leg."

                           ghenzie@hsc.usc.edu
From: graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Graeme Gill)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP DJ500 Printer, MS Windows and Plotter fonts (+ Inkjet quality problem)
Date: 20 Dec 92 04:32:47 GMT
Organization: Labtam Australia Pty. Ltd., Melbourne, Australia

In article <52700004@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com>, limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM) writes:
> 1.  First of all, the plotter fonts are vector fonts specific
>     to the plotters. Therefore, the printer driver does not
>     know how to create them. Hence the DJ500 will substitute 
>     some other font. Likewise, the plotter will substitute
>     its vector fonts for all other fonts that you might choose!

	This is demonstratably not true. The driver does know how
to print them, it just won't say it does!    The procedure
is to set up the system with (say) a postscript printer selected
as the default printer, create the document in write with (say)
the script font (which is a plotter font), and then select print
(in write), select printer setup in the print dialog, select
HP DJ500 as the printer, and print the document. It will happily
print using the plotter font.
Try it before saying it doesn't work. 
The question then, is why won't the HP DJ500 driver admit to being
able to print plotter fonts ? Having to switch back and forward between
the postscript print driver and the HP DJ500 is most annoying.
The HP DJ500 driver seems to have another bug too. It seems to crash
if you try and print a picture in the paint program that comes with windows
3.1, if you select landscape mode and printer resolution.
	
> 2.  Canon reduced their spatter by having their print head much
>     closer to the paper than the DJ (about 3x difference). Try
>     putting a thicker paper such as envelopes through them.

	Interesting. The only thing is that as far as I can tell the
DJ print head is pivoted so that it actually rests on the paper, the
spacing being set by the two "bumps" either side of the ink jet
nozzles. This being the case the paper thickness should make no
difference to the print head/paper spacing.

	Graeme Gill
From: troch@gandalf.Rutgers.EDU (Rod Troch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Deskjet - Ink carts not lasting
Date: 14 Dec 92 03:17:14 GMT
Organization: Right Coast HQ For Stupid Pub Tricks


Howdy,

I am trying to fix a problem with one of our HP Deskjet printers.
The printer in question is a Deskjet, not a Deskjet 500 or 500+, etc.

The problem is this, I install a brand new (not past exp. date) ink
cartridge.  I am able to print a few pages.  I turned the printer off.
I returned the next day, turned on the printer, and attempted to print.

The printer "pretended" to print but no ink was transferred to the paper.
I primed the cartridge (with the prime button) and tried to print again.
Same results, no ink transfers to the page.  I took the cartridge out
and threw it away.  I replaced it with another cartridge.  Same
results.  

I have taken out this cartridge and shook/slammed it around.  Ink flows
out of the cartridge if shaken hard.  How come the printer is unable
to get the ink to flow to the page?

Help.
Thanks.
Rod

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From: rturner@imagen.com (Randy Turner)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: WANTED: Super Printer
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:30:28 GMT
Organization: imagen

br@cs.cmu.edu (Bill Ross) writes:


>  AAAARRRGHH!!  I'm sick of waiting 20 minutes for my 5 MB
>  postscript files to print.  I'm ready to PAY and PAY BIG
>  to have a *FAST* postscript machine that can chew up huge
>  jobs and scornfully spit them out as fast as I can load 
>  paper in the machine!

>  Desirable Characteristics of SUPER PRINTER:

>	At _least_ 10 pages per minute
>	At _least_ 5MB memory
>	Some *WAY FAST* processor on board
>	Postscript and a bizillion fonts
>	Ethernet interface supporting networked Suns
>	Better than average resolution and print quality

>  Pleeeaase recommend a machine for me!

>  Thanks!
>  Bill Ross
>  br@cs.cmu.edu

What you need is a QMS PS3200...Its got a MIPS R3000 processor,
a 32-page per minute print engine, at least 35 built-in fonts (more can
be downloaded to it if you have the hard disk option...), It has an
Ethernet (and Token Ring) card as an option that supports TCP/IP, DECNet,
EtherTalk, or Netware.  It also supports up to 32MBytes of memory...

		It's pretty damn fast too....


			J.R. Turner
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tspila@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Spila Timothy)
Subject: HP LJ4:  Postscript vs. Text
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 22:01:38 GMT

I have heard that the new HP LJ4 is supposed to be able to handle both
postscript and text.  (I am assuming the correct type of LJ4).  How does
it handle the two possibilites?  Does it look at the first few
characters, and use that do to decide whether it is trying to print
postscript or text?

Tim.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers