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From: garnett@cs.man.ac.uk (Paul Garnett PhD)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: AST Turbolaser - Info needed please.
Date: 16 Oct 92 15:06:31 GMT


I have a Turbolaser PS that gives a controller error of 6,
followed by a printer error of 4 - could anybody with a manual
for this beast tell me what they mean?

If anyone has a mail address for AST I would be really grateful if
they could pass it on.

Many Thanks

---Paul

(garnett@cs.man.ac.uk)
From: sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu (Stewart N. Abramson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Need Help With Serial vs. Local Talk
Date: 7 Oct 92 13:08:13 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Pittsburgh


Here is our situation:
We are a small Department with some Mac's (sys 7), a Sun4 (OS
4.1.2) and some MS-DOS PC's all connected on the same ethernet.  The
Sun has an Apple Personal LaserWriter NT connected to it via a serial
connection and it is running Sun's newsprint software (some kind 
of postscript filter??).  The Sun and PC's (using PC-NFS) can 
print to it, but the Mac's can't.  We put the printer directly
on the ethernet with a Dayna etherprint box, but then only the Mac's
could use it.  We would like everyone to be able to use the printer.

I have heard that the UNIX program CAP will do what I want, but I am
not a UNIX person and the CAP program doesn't have a whole usenet
usergroup dedicated to it because it is simple to set up!!  I have
heard a rumor that the Apple Personal LaserWriter NT can accept
both serial and localtalk input at the same time.  Can anyone
tell me how to set this up????????


Appreciate any help.
Stewart
sna@prophet.pharm.pitt.edu
From: rickk@vcd.hp.com (Rick Klaus)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Date: 14 Oct 92 17:41:40 GMT
Article-I.D.: vcd.Bw4H5G.6oC
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Dave Neff (neff@vcd.hp.com) wrote:
 
: 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.

Well, I wasn't going to post anything, but I can't pass up a chance to
correct Dave :-).

There is an upgrade program for the DJ500 and DJ500C (but none of the
earlier versions).  As Dave said, it is essentially a trade-in and the
cost reflects that.  It is $500 to upgrade a DJ500C to a DJ550C and $600
to upgrade a DJ500 to a DJ550C.  You may be better off to sell your old
printer and just buy a new one!  The upgrade program will start in the
middle of November.

Rick Klaus
rickk@vcd.hp.com
From: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Date: 15 Oct 92 12:55:13 GMT
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.de.so.commodore.com (Dr Peter Kittel Germany)
Organization: Commodore Germany

In article <1992Oct12.182910.13216@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>
>Would it be possible for HP to develop a DJ550C printer driver for the
>Amiga so as to avoid multiple reinventions of the wheel? 

There is one well-known programmer named Wolf Faust who has done many
printer drivers. And as far as I understand it, he was paid by the 
respective printer manufacturer and could afterwards give the driver
out as freeware. Now HP chose not to pay or did not provide a sample
printer for long, so this driver exists, I think, but is not free.
Perhaps Wolf can tell it more precise.

>I imagine that
>Amiga users will be the ones to push the colour capablitites of the
>DJ Colour to the fullest.

Indeed. Someone able to explain this to HP people?

-- 
Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to \\  Only my personal opinions...
Commodore Frankfurt, Germany  \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: goyal@utdallas.edu (Mohit K. Goyal)
Subject: Anyone here heard of EMULASER ?!?!
Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:53:26 GMT

Hello.

I got some info. in the mail today from a company called, Vertisoft
Systems.

They are selling a program called EMULASER that they say can produce
PostScript output on just about any printer.

It is a TSR that you load when you boot up.

They are also including 70 different fonts.

All for $50.

Do these type of programs work?

Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Cliff Joslyn)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Black band down right of page -- help!
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:25:21 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center


I'm about half-way through the life of the second ever cartridge in my
Epson EPL-7000 (LJ IIP compatible), and I now get an irregular dark
band of toner down the right side of almost every page. I've seen this
on other printers as well. I've cleaned everything I can find to
clean. What's up? This never happened with the first cartridge. Do I
need yet another cartridge?

Thanks!

O----------------------------------------------------------------------------->
| Cliff Joslyn, Cybernetician at Large, 327 Spring St #2 Portland ME 04102 USA
| Systems Science, SUNY Binghamton      NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
| cjoslyn@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu    joslyn@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tomm@mdd.comm.mot.com (Kevin Tomm)
Subject: was: Info on NEC SilentWriters (vs HP LJ) requested.
Date: 14 Oct 92 20:17:25 GMT

jksson@athena.mit.edu (Jens Karlsson) writes:
> I will be buying a laserprinter shortly, and have narrowed my choice to
> the NEC 95 or the HP III P.  I am slightly partial to the NEC 95, because 
> it is faster and holds more paper.
> 
> However, HP's reputation for high reliability is a strong factor.  Thus,
> I am soliciting information about the reliability of NEC printers, which 
> I know nothing about.  
> 
  - stuff deleted -
I have similarly narrowed my printer choices to the NEC 95 and HP III.  I know
several people that own HP III's and are very happy with them.  However,
I know of no one that owns a NEC 95 and would appreciate any information
about this printer regarding quality issues in followup postings.

In addition I have one further (dumb) question: Does the NEC 95 happen to
use the same toner cartridge as the HP LJ III?  If so that would be an
additional bonus since the HP toner cartridges are available everywhere -
even my local drugstore :).

Kevin Tomm
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)
Date: Thursday, 8 Oct 1992 10:12:11 CET
From: <FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP Paintjet XL300

>From: tedwards@cam.nad.northrop.com (Tony Edwards 27541)
>I have a HP Paintjet XL300 and i am having problems printing Coreldraw
>color files that are large, I have 2 meg of memory on the printer and
>i am running a 386 25mhz with 8 meg of memory.
>The printer prints about a third of the file and then prints " printer
>out of memory " The manual says buy more memory. I wanted to know if
>there are any print cache or utilitys that might help me with this probem.

 NO. The printer is a PAGE printer, it thus needs to build a FULL PAGE image in
memory. The printer Language (PCL5C) allows commands such as move the cursor
to the bottom right corner and put a dot. There is no way the printer can
assume the next command isn't to move to top-left and put another dot, AND, as
these types of printers are not able to back-space the paper, it must have
sufficient memory to continue page-building until it gets the page eject before
committing anything to paper.

 You need - More memory
 or       - Lower resolution
 or       - smaller paper.  ..... Take my advice, get more memory. We run the
                            Black only IIISi's on 6MB, they run like a dream.

 An A3 page in Black takes about 1.8 MB, the same in colour would require
either 3 or 4 times as much (I don't off-hand know how many colours of ink, I.E
wether it has true black, it uses). And that excludes any temporary Font
storage and other working memory it may (or may not) require.
From: robertt@vcd.hp.com (Bob Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Will the HP-DJ550C be software compatible with HP-DJ500C?
Date: 13 Oct 92 16:24:12 GMT
Article-I.D.: vcd.Bw2IwD.Mt4
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Lionel Tun (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk) wrote:
: Subject line says it all really. Will the 550C emulate the 500C
: so you can use it (from an Amiga) before a 550C specific printer
: driver is writtten?

yes.

: 
: --
: Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
: Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

Bob Taylor
HP Vancouver
From: lilianstrom@krang.fnal.gov (If its too loud,  You're too old)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Ethernet boards for HP-LJIII
Date: 15 Oct 1992 13:53:35 GMT
Organization: Fermilab Special Projects Group
Distribution: na
Reply-To: lilianstrom@fndcd.fnal.gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: krang.fnal.gov

In article <1992Oct14.202355.29398@epas.toronto.edu>, tagoldth@tagsun.med.utoronto.ca (Thomas A. Goldthorpe) writes:
>I am looking for ethernet boards for the LJIII printer.  They must
>be able to be used by any host on a TCP/IP conforming network.  Any
>suggestions of boards and the approx price range?
>
>Tom
>

Contact XCd in Irvine, Ca. at (714)476-7855.  They will be making a board that
will do just this WITHOUT any special software for your IP nodes (Assuming that
they support LPR/LPD.)

			al


Al Lilianstrom
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Batavia, Illinois
lilianstrom@fndcd.fnal.gov

My opinion.  Not the DOE's, URA's, or anyone else at Fermilab
From: ken@cse.fau.edu (Kenneth Maier)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Toner Bottle Has a FUSE!
Date: 12 Oct 92 04:16:40 GMT
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA



We've got a TI MicroLaser postscript printer which has one of those
typical toner overflow bottles.   We just replaced the bottle last
week and it seems the little sensor went off and it won't print anything
until the overflow bottle is replaced.   This brought two questions
up which I was hoping someone could answer:

(1)  How does that little fuse-thingy work on the bottle?  Since the
     fuse apparently blew and we don't have another bottle, I did a
     no-no and taped a little wire across the fuse so it'll work 
     anyway (short fix until we get a new bottle).   Other than risking
     toner spilling all over the inside of the printer if we don't
     watch the level, am I doing anything that'll break the printer?

(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?   

-ken
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Will the HP-DJ550C be software compatible with HP-DJ500C?
Date: 13 Oct 92 10:39:23 GMT
Organization: City University, London

Subject line says it all really. Will the 550C emulate the 500C
so you can use it (from an Amiga) before a 550C specific printer
driver is writtten?

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
From: eapu050@orion.oac.uci.edu (Chicken)
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 10 Oct 92 04:46:23 GMT
Distribution: usa

Will there be any upgrad path for the DeskWriter C and the Deskjet
500C users?
From: yshi@mcclb0.med.nyu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Deskwriter
Date: 11 Oct 92 05:56:03 GMT
Organization: NYU Medical Center, New York, NY 10016, USA

What is the printer command language for HP Deskwriter for Mac?
Is it QuickDraw or HP PCL or other? I ask this question because
sometimes I need to specify graphics format for the output by
other computer systems.

Thanks.

-Yshi
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: Peter Haight <psh1@cornell.edu>
Subject: Connecting Apple LaserWriter IIf to an IBM compatible
X-Xxdate: Fri, 9 Oct 92 21: 28:20 GMT
Nntp-Posting-User: psh1@cornell.edu
Organization: Cornell University
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 19:22:19 GMT


I have an Apple Laser Writer IIf that I'd like to hook to an IBM. Has
anyone ever done this. The LaserWriter has an RS-232c port on the back of
it and the documentation says that you can set it up to emulate an HP
IIP, and I have done that. But when I try to print to COM1 on the IBM I
get a write failure error. I've tried things like:
mode com1:9600,N,8,1
mode lpt1:=com1

But nothing seems to effect it. Any  ideas?

I would prefer email to psh1@cornell.edu but posting here is fine too. 

Thanks
Peter Haight
psh1@cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.lang.postscript
From: stevew@helios.unl.edu (Steve Wu)
Subject: setduplexmode on Pacific Page Cartridge
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Date:  8 Oct 92 16:12:10 GMT


  We have a HP laserjet IIID with Pacific Page Cartridge, and we want
to print in duplex mode. However, it seems to me that Pacific Page
Cartridge doesn't have sedduplexmode in its statusdict. I have an
other IIID printer using HP postscript cartridge and it works fine
when I do this:

	statusdict begin
	  true setduplexmode
	end

  Does anyone know if Pacific Page Cartridge can do this? (They have
no PostScript documentation about their product, and they even
announce they won't provid technical support for PS language).

  Thanks.

  steve
--
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: sci10147@nusunix1.nus.sg (WONG HUNG)
Subject: Star printer
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:37:43 GMT

Some kind soul mailed me regarding the star printer in windows problem.
He says I am in wrong emulation mode. I should use epson.
I don't quite get what he meant.
Do I need to change the driver to an epson one?
If so, which one?
Or I continue using Star driver and configure something else?

Thanx.
From: kyeh@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Kung-ching Yeh)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Need info for Epson lq-570 , Panasonic KX-P2124
Date: 15 Oct 92 07:26:45 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Hi,
     I am going to buy a printer and interested in either Epson LQ-570
or Panasonic KX-P2124.  I would like to know which printer has better
performance under Windows (graphic mode) and the specific differences
between them.
     I am also thinking about buying a cut sheet feeder with a printer.
Which printer has a better handling capacity, (such as # of paper, 
envelop
feed, ..etc.); and the price difference.

     The software that I am using are 

     Windows, ATM, MS Words, MS Excel, Word Perfect, 
     Compilers, Pspice, Matlab, and CAD programs.

     If you own one of the printers, aside from the specific questions
above, I would like to know the general performance.

Kung-Ching Yeh
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: david@umbc4.umbc.edu (Dave Brookshire)
Subject: Misc. PostScript utilties
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:46:33 GMT

I am in search of a collection (or lots of individual) PostScript utility
programs.  I've programmed a few of my own which display printer statistics
and other such information, and would like to know what else is out there.
Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.


Hmm...I would also be interested in any other Non-PostScript printer utilties.


David
--david@umbc4.umbc.edu

  Academic Computing Services
  Microcomputer & Network Support
  University of Maryland Baltimore County
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: neff@vcd.hp.com (Dave Neff)
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 21:59:01 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Hewlett-Packard VCD
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5


At the risk of getting tons of mail (which I really don't want by the
way), I was a firmware engineer on the DeskWriter 550C and DeskJet 550C
projects for the first half of the project and then was the firmware
project manager for the second half of the project.  I will try to
answer a few questions about the 550C.  If people have specific questions
post them here and I will then try to do an additional posting to
answer any other questions.

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.

Support for color ASCII text (a DOS only feature).  Our Mac and Windows
drivers actually send graphics only so the 500C does "color text" in
these GUI environments but WordPerfect for Dos, for example, can't
send color text to the 500C.  This is no longer the case for the 550C.

There is now a new glossy paper that gives very nice color output.  This
glossy paper will also work with the 500C.  Unfortunately the paper
is $1 a sheet.

The 550C can accept a stack of up to 20 envelopes.

There are a few other minor differences but basically the 550C is a better
printer by having true black and color inks available at all times.  It
can print on special transparencies (just like the 500C).  Overall
Windows and Mac users will fine the 550C to be a very good convenience
color printer.  The 550C will be a reasonable printer for the DOS user as
well, but our Windows and Mac drivers (developed by HP here) play a
major role in providing an excellent low cost color solution.  In DOS
the solution will vary application to application.

Dave Neff
neff@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Coreldraw 2 vs. HPIIIp with postscript
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:55:31 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Allen J Michielsen (amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu) wrote:
> 1. About the answer:  Interesting.  The HP IIIP uses a 10 Mhz 68000 cpu,
> which is the same CPU as the Apple Laserwriter, Laserwriter Plus, Laserwriter
> IINT, Personal Laserwriter NT,... and many of the apple printers use a slower
> clock.  Most Postscript printers on the market use a 68000 or family cpu,
> same as the HP.  Guess that kinda junks that whole paragraph.
>
Minor nit.  The IIIP uses a 16MHz 68K (the IIP used a 10MHz 68K).  Doesn't
the NT use a 68020? or is that the NTX?   Most of the more modern printers
are getting away from the 68K family.  Other than that, good analysis.
Yep, Postscript out of cartridge is hardly a speed demon,  but PS is
inherently CPU intensive.  Unless you really need the device independence,
I'd recommend using the native PCL - it's a lot faster, and results are
usually just as good.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
From: lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun)
Subject: Re: Deskjet 550C
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: City University, London
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 92 18:29:10 GMT

In article <Bvtp2D.7An@vcd.hp.com> neff@vcd.hp.com (Dave Neff) writes:
>The 550C can accept a stack of up to 20 envelopes.
>
>There are a few other minor differences but basically the 550C is a better
>printer by having true black and color inks available at all times.  It
>can print on special transparencies (just like the 500C).  Overall
>Windows and Mac users will fine the 550C to be a very good convenience
>color printer.  The 550C will be a reasonable printer for the DOS user as
>well, but our Windows and Mac drivers (developed by HP here) play a
>major role in providing an excellent low cost color solution.  In DOS
>the solution will vary application to application.
>
>Dave Neff
>neff@hp-vcd.vcd.hp.com

Would it be possible for HP to develop a DJ550C printer driver for the
Amiga so as to avoid multiple reinventions of the wheel? I imagine that
Amiga users will be the ones to push the colour capablitites of the
DJ Colour to the fullest.

--
Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tspila@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Spila Timothy)
Subject: Coreldraw 2 vs. HPIIIp with postscript
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 13:51:24 GMT

Here at work, we have Coreldraw 2.0 (or 2.1) installed on our computers.  To
print, we have an HP IIIP with a postscript cartridge from HP.  Our problem
is that whenever we send a drawing to the printer, it takes FOREVER.  It will
eventually print (usually), but unless we set the retry time in windows to 
something outragous (720 seconds) it keeps bothering us with messages on
the screen.  This is not right.

Also, it appears that the problem is either with the generated postscript or
this printer.  Because I printed to a postscript file (worked quickly) and
then sent that to the printer (took 15 minutes).  This want not a complicated
postscript file (about 265K).

Upon calling Corel, we have gotten the run-around several times.  My question:
Has anyone else experienced this problem?  Did you ever find a solution?

Tim.
From: larryhow@austin.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: This is a test.
Date: 15 Oct 92 17:00:45 GMT
Organization: IBM Austin
Originator: larryhow@larryhow.austin.ibm.com


Test append.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: palane@iastate.edu (Paul A. Lane)
Subject: Refilling PaintJet
Summary: Report
Keywords: Hewlett Packard PaintJet PaintWriter Refill
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:24:07 GMT

Netters:

As I had a lot of success with refilling DeskJet/DeskWriter ink cartridges,
I decided to try a PaintJet cartridge (three color). Unfortunately, the
holes are quite thouroughly plugged, so I drilled through them (after ruin-
ing one cartridge trying to pry it apart). I'm not sure if they need to be
capped afterwards.

In any event, refilling with red and blue ink seemed fairly easy. Unfortunately
there is no yellow versions of Shaeffer Skrip ink. Evidently, yellow fountain
pens have never caught on. I have found some yellow drawing ink, which is a
water soluble ink. Unfortunately, the stuff has thicker particles than the
pen ink, so I'm uncertain as to if it will work.

Does anyone have experience finding a yellow ink that works with these
cartridges? Either drawing ink that works or a source for pen ink would 
be appreciated.

TIA (Thanks In Advance),
			Paul