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From: ddml@visual1.jhuapl.edu (Dave Libershal)
Subject: Re: Running a DEC Printserver 20 over TCP/IP and/or Novell
Organization: Johns Hopkins University/APL
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 20:11:05 GMT

In article <1992Sep9.140327.8417@aston.ac.uk>, oweng@aston.ac.uk (Gareth Owen) writes:
> 
> There's no mention of any network option other than DECNET in Decdirect

> It would be a pity to leave our best printer behind in the rush to move from
> VMS to UNIX
> 

See p.184 of Spring/Summer 1992 Software Edition of DECdirect for a desc. of the
ULTRIX PrintServer Software. Note that the Client software is part of ULTRIX
4.2. Also note that you can get a source kit to install the Printserver Host or
Client software on any BSD-based UNIX system.

Also, see p.214 of the Fall/Winter (1991?) DECdirect Hardware catalog.

We have a VMS PrintServer Host with VMS Clients accessing the LPS20 via DECnet
and we have one ULTRIX Client accessing the same printer via TCP/IP.

Dave Libershal             ddml@visual1.jhuapl.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Subject: HPLJIII .TFM files
Reply-To: dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Organization: Wellington City Council, Wgtn, NZ
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 21:48:24 GMT

The HP LaserJet III User Guide mentions that TFM (font metric) files are
available for the printer's built-in fonts, on `Autofont Support' diskettes

My local HP office said `ask your dealer' when I enquired, and my dealer
has never heard of such things and seems unable to come up with any 
information.

Has anyone followed up this reference in the User Guide?  Do you know how to
obtain these files?  Is there a part number I can quote to the dealer?

I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me on this.

Chris Dennis                                   dennis_c@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
Wellington, New Zealand
From: david@john-littlejohn.ics.uci.edu (David Harnick-Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: SUMMARY: PS-2000 Document Option Commands
Keywords: upgrade!
Date: 14 Sep 92 23:37:35 GMT
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS

In <2AAE7012.12691@ics.uci.edu> I wrote:

>Here's the rub:  not all the options are supported by the printer;  if
>you ask for such an option, your request is silently ignored.  Does
>anyone out there know of a way to find out which options are supported
>by which printers at which revision levels?

Phil Weingart <weingart@imagen.com> was kind enough to inform me that
the most recent release of the PS 2000 firmware supports all of the
relevant features.  ("Relevant features" means you shouldn't expect to
use resolution specifications on a printer without multiple resolutions,
or paper tray selections on a printer with just one input tray--in other
words, everything reasonable.)

I've heard from other contact with QMS that this firmware upgrade is now
being installed.  If you are not contacted in the near future (what's that?
one month? two?) about upgrading, you should call your local QMS office
and tell them you want to schedule the firmware upgrade.

--------
David Harnick-Shapiro   Support Group, Department of       david@ics.uci.edu
                      Information and Computer Science   ucbvax!ucivax!david
                      University of California, Irvine
Xref: sparky comp.periphs.printers:2634 comp.sys.hp:10376 comp.sys.novell:7270 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc:5213
From: dseeman@novell.com (Daniel Seeman)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.novell,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.ibmpc
Subject: Re: **ETHERNET CARD for HPIIIsi speaking IPX and TCP/IP**
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:05:10 GMT
Organization: Novell, Inc.

Followup-To: 
Distribution: 
Organization: Novell Inc., San Jose, Califonia
Keywords: 

In article <10SEP199214491719@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> scottree@bfec13.gsfc.nasa.gov writes:
>We are looking to attach an HP3si printer directly to our ethernet network.
>We would like to be able to print via tcp/ip (a VAX Multinet queue), ipx
>from our Novell v3.11 network, and maybe from our MACs.  
>
>What cards are out on the market that can do this?  What experiences have 
>you had installing, configuring, and maintaining the network print function?
>Can a card deal with all of these protocols/print queues at one time?
>
>Any help will be appreciated (including a phone number or address of card
>maker).

HI,

HP makes a couple of ethernet interfaces for the IIIsi. If using the ethernet/  
IPX interface,  just use PCONSOLE to create a queue and attatch it to the queue
server and off you go.  If you then add NW4MAC v3.01 or greater, your Macintosh
clients can use the printer as well.  HP also makes the ETHERTALK PHASE II 
interface too, so you can go that route too.  I am not sure about how this would
work with your Multinet queue though.  Hopefully someone else has that info. for
you.

Hope this helps...

Think Peace, and PLEASE V-O-T-E-VOTE!!!

Dan Seeman
Novell
Walnut Creek, Ca.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: K1.ARC@isumvs.iastate.edu (Arnie Cowan)
Subject: Laser Writer NTR question
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 19:05:30 GMT

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?

Thanks in advance for any replies.
--
Arnie Cowan                      |   k1.arc@isumvs.bitnet
Assistant Professor of Finance   |   arnie@iastate.edu
Iowa State University            |
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.protocols.appletalk,comp.sys.mac.comm
From: Peter Purgathofer <purgi@iguwnext.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Once again: mixed network
X-Xxmessage-Id: <A6D8DFAF3401B604@berlin.tuwien.ac.at>
X-Xxdate: Sun, 13 Sep 92 12: 08:15 GMT
Organization: Institute for Assessment and Design of Technology
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1992 10:07:38 GMT

We still have the same problems as 2 month ago, and i havent found an
answer. So this is another posting with the same problems, reflecting my
current level of knowledge.

We are trying to incorporate some macs, 2 PCs, an HP LaserJet III and 1
NeXT into one network. We have mostly ethernet cards, although some macs
have only LocalTalk.

Our most urgent problem is printing. We need to be able to print to the
LaserJet from all machines. To accomplish this, we purchased an
EtherNet-Box for the printer, called EtherPrint (Dayna). It works
perfectly with the macs, but the NeXT (and the PCs) fails to see the
printer. This might mainly be because the box doesnt seem to speak TCP/IP.

One solution would be (I think) to get AppleTalk-Software for the NeXT
(uShare) and the PCs (???), but since we are not able to buy software any
more, this is no solution for us. (Or is some pd-sw out there??).

Another solution would be to hook the printer to the NeXT and then have
all print jobs queued by the NeXT. This sounds fine, but I dont know how
to do this. I always read about CAP (6.0 or 6.1), but I dont know what it
is...  Would it help us?

The PCs would mainly run Windows 3.1. Is there some PD-software for
accessing the printer when it is connected to the NeXT?? BTW, does
anybody know of PD-NFS-Software for PCs?

This is quite a lot for one posting. There might be problems reaching me
via email. If so, please post all suggestions, I read the news regulary.

Well, thanx in advance for helping some desperate guy in vienna,
austria...

Peter
--
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HPIIID - a print quality problem
From: greg@ccc.govt.nz (Greg West)
Date: 16 Sep 92 10:18:06 NZDT
Organization: Christchurch City Council, New Zealand.

Hi,

We are having a particularly difficult printer problem with one of our
HPIIID printers.

The IIID has two paper trays installed, one is used for A4 plain paper
and the other for A4 company letterhead.

There's no problem printing on plain paper but on letterhead we have
an intermitant problem with 'smudging' of the toner on the paper.  It
sort of looks like some of the text is quite blurred and there's
smudging in the background. The smudging appears on from about
half-way to the bottom of the page, again ONLY on letterhead.

I've put in a new toner and even swapped the toner with another IIID
but it dosen't help.  Also I've swapped trays, but no success.

As for the letterhead, we've been using it since Feburary on all our
other printers.  We have 6 other IIID's that perform well with the
letterhead paper. I checked with the manufacturer of the paper and it
seems to be in spec.

Sometimes the problem will go away for a hundred pages or so and then
happens about ever other page.

The service engineers can't seem to fix it and they want to send it
away to HP to get fixed.

I personally think the printer has a very low tolerance to different
paper.

Has anybody out there had this problem - this is really stressing some
of us out.  
 
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Greg West              "Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar"   S. Freud |
+-------------------------> greg@ccc.govt.nz <--------------------------+
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Subject: Re: need advice on PostScript printers
Reply-To: buchignani@hg.uleth.ca
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:11:19 GMT

re: QMS 410 vs NEC Silentwriter 95

I went with the latter, though both seem fine machines. The latter
has a number features you didn't mention: HPCL5 (rather than -4)
and Postscript 2 (rather than 1).

The toiner cart. is supposed to be good for 6,000 copies, making
its cost comparable to the QMS, more or less.

By the way, the '95 has edge enhancement technology, which really
is something you can see.

    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
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Need help with codes for HP PaintJet XL300
From: L.Chisholm@massey.ac.nz (Len Chisholm)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 05:58:06 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Keywords: HP XL300 PaintJet codes
Summary: Need info on HPGL-PCL switchiong and A3 paper codes
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

Hi there.

We have just received an HP Paintjet XL300 inkjet printer.

It works well , but we want to be able to use it for HPGL/2 selected
by escape codes. The basic manual does not contain enough information,
and the full manuals will take about 3 weeks to get to New Zealand we
are told. This is too late for our students to be able to use the
printer.

If there is anybody out there who has the full HPGL/2 manuals for the
printer , could you please Email the following information to me :

- what the parameters of the Esc%#A ( to PCL  ) instruction mean
- what the parameters of the Esc%#B ( to HPGL ) instruction mean
- what commands are needed to make the printer use A3 paper correctly
  as we have only been able to plot on A4 sized areas so far.

Thanks in anticipation,

-- 
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|  LEN CHISHOLM , Systems programmer  | EMail: L.Chisholm@massey.ac.nz  |
| Department of Production Technology | Phone: +64 6 3505262            |
|         Massey University           | FAX:   +64 6 3505604            |
|   Palmerston North, New Zealand     |                                 |
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: vanee@prl.philips.nl (Jan van Ee)
Subject: HELP on softfonts for HP DeskJet 500
Originator: vanee@prl.philips.nl
Organization: Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 07:45:35 GMT

Hi,

A short question (with possibly a lengthy answer). Can anyone provide me 
with a description of the sequences I have to send to my HP DeskJet 500 to 
load my own softfonts? In other words, I would like a description of the 
escape sequences: <ESC>)s#W and <ESC>(s#W. 

I don't whish to enter the HP Peripheral Developers Program just for this 
information. Moreover, I think this info should be in the printer's manual 
and if not, at least in the Technical Reference Manual of the DeskJet 500. 
But since it is in neither manual, I would appreciate it very much if any 
one would provide me with this info.

Jan van Ee (vanee@prl.philips.nl)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: u911661@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Mad Mal)
Subject: GQ 3500 drivers (amiga)
Summary: looking for GQ3500 laser printer drivers for the Amiga..
Keywords: help
Organization: University of Tasmania, Australia.
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:33:47 GMT

I am looking for printer drivers for the Epson GQ 3500 laser printer for
the Amiga...

Any assistance greatly appreciated...

Mal.

--
Anybody who claims to know everything knows nothing, as anybody who knows           anything knows that nobody can know everything.                                                                  
<-- Me, otherwise known as:
    
   Snail Mail: 4 Ben Street                     u911661@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au                   West Hobart                                                                     Tasmania,                                                                       
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: petere@pfm.rmt.sub.org (Peter Eckhardt)
Subject: Recommendation for Matrix Printer wanted
Organization: PFM News & Mail RMT Mainz, Germany
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:58:36 GMT


Hi,

i am looking for a matrix printer with the following attributes:

    - epson comatible
    - reverse form feed available or
      paper is removable without loosing sheets (would be great).

    - robust
    - not too expensive

any help is very appreciated.

please reply to: dbadm%rapunze@attmail.com
or (X.400)     : C=US A=ATTMAIL O=ATTMAIL G=peter S=eckhardt
                 DDA=attmail!rapunze!dbadm

Thanks in advance
Peter

-- 
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W.-Liebknecht Str. 53
6112 Gross-Zimmern			Phone: *49 6071 71921
Xref: sparky comp.periphs:1256 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware:24228
From: aris@unisup1.uucp (Aris Stathakis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Fujitsu M2263E - Can't get it to work!
Date: 11 Sep 92 15:19:42 GMT
Organization: Lasernet (pty) Ltd.

I've got a Fujitsu M2263E 700 meg ESDI drive i'm trying to get to
work with a DTC 6280-15 ESDI controller.  I just can't get the
damed thing to low-level format.  It thinks all the sectors are
bad and this disk is brand new.  I've also tried a DPT PM3011E
Caching controller.  the DPTFMT utility just doesn't want to format
this disk.

Is there something special about this disk I need to know?  

Has anyone out there got one of these drives working?  If so which
controller are you using?

Thanks in advance

Aris

P.S.  Please post *AND* replly via e-mail as my usenet connection  is
      quite unstable.

-- 
Aris Stathakis        Tel +27 11 887 4220 | 
SCO Unix Support      Fax +27 11 887 1141 |     " Ni, Peng, Nooooowom. "
UniNet - A Division of Lasernet (Pty) Ltd |_________________________________
Internet:   aris@unisup1.UUCP      Bang: uunet!ddsw1!olsa99!unisup1!aris
Newsgroups: comp.periphs,scsi,comp.arch.storage,comp.unix.questions
From: sdm7g@aemsun.med.Virginia.EDU (Steven D. Majewski)
Subject: Why can't QIC tapes BackSpace ? or write anywhere but EOM ? 
Followup-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Organization: University of Virginia - Physiology Dept.
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 17:44:42 GMT


Why can't QIC tapes backspace? Or write anywhere but at the 
end-of-medium ? 

Is this a physical device restriction ( I assume that is the 
case rather than a SCSI command or device driver restriction,
since cartridge tapes are the only ones that can't do it. ) ? 

Could someone explain ? 

I can _imagine_ ( although I don't know ) why there could be 
restrictions imposed by the method of physical tape movement
that would exclude backspacing. But WHY no write except at 
EOM ? [ Rewinding and repositioning at the last-but-one file 
mark to redo that last TAR file would be a lot nicer than having
to rewrite the entire tape! On a Sparc ( SunOS 4.1.1 ) the 
command 'mt weof 2', fails if you're not at the EOM, so you
can't even MAKE eom at some arbitrary spot. ] 


DAT/DDS tape drives do not have these limitation, do they ? 



======== "If you have a hammer, find a nail" - George Bush,'91  =========
 Steven D. Majewski		University of Virginia Physiology Dept.
 sdm7g@Virginia.EDU		Box 449 Health Sciences Center
 Voice: (804)-982-0831/32	1300 Jefferson Park Avenue
 FAX:   (804)-982-1616		Charlottesville, VA 22908
From: kthompso@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Ken Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: SCSI archive files
Date: 4 Sep 92 18:15:21 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: NCR Corporation Wichita, KS

news@mgse.UUCP (News Administator) writes:
)The SCSI BBS (316-636-8700) contains a large amount of data relating to SCSI,

I repeat!  The SCSI BBS has moved.  The new number is 719-574-0424.


-- 
Ken Thompson    N0ITL  
NCR Corp.  Peripheral Products Division   Disk Array Development
3718 N. Rock Road  Wichita KS 67226   (316)636-8783
Ken.Thompson@wichitaks.ncr.com 
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
From: anash@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Dana Uehara c/o Andrew Nash)
Subject: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
Organization: Toonaholics Anonymous, DA-Holics Anonymous
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 09:44:37 GMT

Help!!
I've had some problems with using the "talk" command on this computer
system (uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu) and would appreciate any advice.

The "talk" command worked okay at one time.  Now, however, I've run into
problems with using "talk."  An attempt to "talk" to a user on a different
system gave me the message "Trying to connect to your party's talk daemon,"
while an attempt at using talk with this signon (i.e. "talk anash") resulted
in the message "Checking for invitation on caller's machine."

Can anyone offer any advice?  

Thanks!!


--
======== Dana Uehara [c/o <anash@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu> (Andrew Nash)] =======
"Leave this to my personal self...  Brilliant, yes-no?"		-- Don Karnage
From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
Subject: Re: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
Date: 7 Sep 1992 09:15:25 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

libove@libove.alf.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove) writes:

>This is not a bug, but instead a version incompatibility. When UNIX
>(the operating system itself, not any particular machine) moved from
>Berkeley version 4.2 and version 4.3, the talk protocol changed, in
>order to accomodate a newer protocol that could handle talking between
>machines with different architectural byte-orderings.  What this comes
>down to is that machines running a BSD 4.2 version of "talk" can not
>talk to machines running the BSD 4.3 version of "talk".  Some newer
>systems provide "otalk" to talk to older machines, or "ntalk" to talk
>to newer ones. Try those, and also try reading the manuals and asking
>locally for assistance, as some sites also provide their own changed
>talk programs to meet this need. 

If anyone is interested, talk for the Macintosh by Peter N Lewis will talk
to any machine under (and including) the sun.  The only rumoured failure
was talking to a mac running aux.  Sad hey.

I am sure he would be willing to mail anyone a copy of the source code or
you can ftp it from an info-mac archive
/info-mac/source/pascal/talk-106.hqx

Do the world a favour and port the internal bit that connects to any
machine.

Craig
--
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  University of Western Australia    Dept of Education (afternoon)
craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au                              Dvorak Keyboards RULE!
     "Only users are allowed to make messes on their computers"  I.M.VI
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
From: anash@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Dana Uehara c/o Andrew Nash)
Subject: Re: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
Organization: Toonaholics Anonymous, DA-Holics Anonymous
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 03:55:17 GMT

Yours truly writes:
>
>The "talk" command worked okay at one time.  

Well, apparently the problem has fixed itself...  I just used the
"talk" command earlier today and discovered that it worked fine.
I think I just needed to give the system time to connect properly.
Thanks for all the advice!


--
=================== Dana Uehara <anash@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu> ================
"How many times do I gotta tell you -- do what I think, not mean what I say?!"
							 	-- Pete
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
From: libove@libove.alf.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove)
Subject: Re: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Atlanta Customer Support Center
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 14:19:12 GMT

This is not a bug, but instead a version incompatibility. When UNIX
(the operating system itself, not any particular machine) moved from
Berkeley version 4.2 and version 4.3, the talk protocol changed, in
order to accomodate a newer protocol that could handle talking between
machines with different architectural byte-orderings.  What this comes
down to is that machines running a BSD 4.2 version of "talk" can not
talk to machines running the BSD 4.3 version of "talk".  Some newer
systems provide "otalk" to talk to older machines, or "ntalk" to talk
to newer ones. Try those, and also try reading the manuals and asking
locally for assistance, as some sites also provide their own changed
talk programs to meet this need. 

Posting to the net before checking locally is not as effective.

Best wishes...
--

Jay Vassos-Libove                  libove@alf.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!alf.dec.com!libove
Atlanta Customer Support Center    Opinions? They're mine, mine, all mine!
Alpharetta, Georgia                and D.E.C. Can't have 'em!
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.misc
From: libove@libove.alf.dec.com (Jay Vassos-Libove)
Subject: Re: "talk" bugs on the "uhunix" system
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Atlanta Customer Support Center
	<LIBOVE.92Sep6091912@libove.alf.dec.com> <18f6jdINN2vn@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 14:57:43 GMT

It isn't a matter of porting the bit of code - there are two different
talk protocols out there.  It would be possible to modify the talk
code to try its default protocol and, failing that, try the other,
but it would be heuristic, and not 100% reliable. It would also
lead to rather long delays in getting connected, sometimes, plus
would fail badly if the network connection was down at the time.

It makes more sense, for now, to have the two versions of talk 
available. The symptom of reaching a talk daemon of the other protocol
version is easily recognizable (as posted by the first person to ask
here) and running a different program isn't so bad.

The real problem is that talk runs as root, and you can't just port
the code and install it - the system administrators at every site would
have to evaluate its safety and then choose to install it, and then
maintain through operating system upgrades.

The best possible solution is to get the people at the remote sites
running the older version to UPGRADE.

--

Jay Vassos-Libove                  libove@alf.dec.com
Digital Equipment Corporation      decwrl!alf.dec.com!libove
Atlanta Customer Support Center    Opinions? They're mine, mine, all mine!
Alpharetta, Georgia                and D.E.C. Can't have 'em!
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.2bsd