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From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: Printing return addresses on Canon laser beam printer
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:07:28 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Michael Kassler (michael@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU) wrote:
> I have a Canon laser beam printer LBP-8IIIR with Ef-1 envelope feeder.
> When printing (within limits specified in manual) return addresses near
> top left corner of envelope there often is smudged printing apparently
> caused by envelope passing over rollers. Problem always in same place.
> This has been reported to Canon but they have no solution.
> 
> Has anyone else experienced this problem on Canon or other Canon-engine
> laser printers such as HP? Any suggestions?
> 
This is a common problem when printing envelopes in normal landscape mode.
The cause of the problem is the end of the envelope vibrating after the
toner is deposited.  The only real solution is to print in reverse landscape
mode, so that the return address is now at the leading edge of the envelope
(the main address is in the middle of the envelope, so vibration is not a
problem, there).  Since the LBP printers don't use PCL, I can't tell you
the escape sequence, but check the manual.
From: tims@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: HP LJ4M Postscript download app?
Date: 24 Jan 93 17:31:07 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

Is there any way to download postscript fonts to my HP LaserJet 4M?  I did 
this a lot with my Apple IINT and it increased print time greatly. 
I used the Apple LaserWriter Utility to download postscript files to print, 
but it doesn't want to work with the LaserJet 4M.

Please post any suggestions or e-mail to me at tims@bvc.edu

Thanks tons,

T.
....................................................................
tim seydel / buena vista college / storm lake / iowa / tims@bvc.edu  
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: law30056@nusunix1.nus.sg (TAN KEN HWEE)
Subject: Help!  PostScript & MS Word 5,5
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 10:01:30 GMT


Help!  I've got a problem printing from MS Word 5.5 to a Texas
Instrument PostScript Printer.  The spacing for the Courier font gets
totally screwed up.  The driver chosen was the generic Postscript one
and the problem is clearly a driver problem because it does not occur on
Word 5.0.

Are there updated PS drivers for MS Word 5.5?  Can I get them by ftp?
The Microsoft Technical service in Singapore sucks and I really need
this asap.  Could kind souls out on the net email me if they know how to
go about getting the updated drivers?

Thanks in advance to all who can assist.  My apologies if this post is
slightly off track from this newsgroup.


KenHwee Tan
National University of Singapore

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: kkrueger@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kurt Krueger)
Subject: WANTED: HP DJ 500
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:57:25 GMT

I am looking to buy an HP DeskJet 500.  If you have one to sell, please
let me know, and we'll hammer out a price.

--
Kurt R. Krueger
University of Nebraska at Omaha
kkrueger@unomaha.edu

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: bryanvv@netcom.com (Bryan Van Vliet)
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 4M: Appletalk & Netware on 1 LaserDirect
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:13:55 GMT

>So, is there anyway to get Appletalk & Netware protocols running together
>on one JetDirect card?  Might as well think about TCP/IP too, since there
>are a few Unix types around the office to please also. 

Yes. Extended Systems (208.322.7575 Voice, 208.377.1906 Fax) sells the
ESI-2866A which supports both Netware & EtherTalk at the same time. It
also has a 10BaseT and a 10Base2 connector. And it automatically
switches between PCL and PS. This last feature is really nice, because
the JetDirect card we had in our IIIsi before we bought the 2866A
relied on setting up 2 Netware Print Job Queues to switch the
emulation. We killed many, many trees when PC users would print PS
while capturing to the PCL job queue.

For TCP/IP I have CAP 6.0 printing to EtherTalk printers from a SPARCstation. 
I don't know if Extended Systems has an adapter which also supports TCP/IP.

--
Bryan Van Vliet
bryanvv@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Subject: Re: While we're at it, what about 4'D'?(was re: 4P)
Originator: tt@tarzan.math.jyu.fi
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 14:08:44 GMT

In article <C19L55.2w7@boi.hp.com> ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill) writes:

>Peter Smith (psmith@alfred.carleton.ca) wrote:

>> No 4D...are you sure?  Why not?  I had heard that the IIID sold well
>> just like the IID before it.  Or has the IIIsi cut into its market?

>Yes, I'm sure.  Why?  The management/marketing types here decided
>that the niche for slow duplex machines was too small to justify taking
>engineering resources away from higher-volume products.

How about a 4si?  600 dpi at 17 ppm would really be nice ...
--
Tapani Tarvainen  (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
From: map6459@zeus.tamu.edu (PAUL, MARY ANN)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Apple Scribe printer
Date: 25 Jan 1993 17:22 CST
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: zeus.tamu.edu
Keywords: Apple IIc
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

I don't know if any one can help me with this but I have an Apple Scribe that
prints fine with black but when I put the color ribbon in all it does is
act like it is printing on the same line 4 or 5 times and then stops.
The select light blinks bbut if I put the black ribbon in it works.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
    Mary Ann  

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: While we're at it, what about 4'D'?(was re: 4P)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:50:28 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Peter Smith (psmith@alfred.carleton.ca) wrote:
> It seems to me that one of the sister models of each new series
> typically comes out first.  Unless I'm mistaken, that is the 'P'.
> Since the 4P isn't out, I guess that suggests quite a wait for the 4D.
> 
> Am I correct?
>
Actually, the D version normally comes out about 6 months after the simplex
unit.  However, there will not be a 4D.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ac0@.uark.edu (ALEX CHUAH)
Subject: Print postscript to HP LaserJet III from PC?
Reply-To: ac0@.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:57:33 GMT




Could anyone show me the path to a program that would allow
me to print postscript files to a HP LaserJet III?  The printer
is linked to a PC(running DOS) but the problem is that the PC
does not have the applications which are available at other
PCs.  Thus i would like to print my work to a postscript
file and take it over to the PC(with the printer) and
use a small program that would print my postscript file.
I need this file pretty urgently.  Any help would be much 
appreciated.  Thanx.


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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 10:20:11 EST
From: Peter Parisi <PXP8@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Canon-IBM notebook-printer combo?

My morning's newspaper shows a photo and caption (no more) of a notebook
computer fused to a bubblejet printer, developed by Canon in cooperation
with IBM Japan.  The printer appears to lie along the underside of the
computer.  Paper is shown running in the back and out the front, under the
keyboard.  Does anyone know anything about this critter?  I'm particularly
curious whether the intimate connection of computer and printer leads to any
greater variety of font downloading possibilities.  Other specs would be
interesting too.

Peter Parisi, Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rhatcher@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Ronald Hatcher)
Subject: printcap for Deskjet 500
Originator: news@nimaster
Keywords: printers, printcap, deskjet
Organization: Princeton University
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:37:26 GMT

Anyone out there with experience connecting Deskjet printers to unix boxes?
If so I could use a printcap entry for a Deskjet 500 I have connected to 
my Sun 3/80. So far I can print to it by using cat to the port but for many
reasons this is not satisfactory.

Thanks,
	R
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rt12@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (R. M. Tsay)
Subject: HP LJ IIp vs IIp plus
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 27 Jan 93 02:08:27 GMT

Can anyone tell me the difference between HP laserjet IIp and IIp
plus? 

Thank you.

Rueyming Tsay

--
 ***************************************************************************
    Rueyming Tsay                           Cornell University  
    rt12@crux2.cit.cornell.edu              Ithaca, New York 14853
 ***************************************************************************
From: dre@ocfkms.llnl.gov (Douglas R. East)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: FOR SALE: Epson EX-1000
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:54:26 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab

I have an Epson EX-1000 (wide carriage) printer that I do not need
anymore, having had it hooked up to a AT&T 3b1 which I just sold.
I purchased it new in 1987, but it has very low mileage, and does
work quite well.  I'll come right out and admit that I don't have
a good feel for its worth, so I would like to entertain offers.
As a gut feel, $200.00 seems to be a good starting point, but please
offer if you have an interest!  I expect the buyer to pay shipping
costs if outside the San Francisco Bay Area.

Thanks and hope to hear from you!
-- 

Doug East
Open Computing Facility                                   dre@llnl.gov
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory                  (510) 294-4148
Xref: sparky comp.periphs.printers:4081 comp.unix.admin:7273 comp.sys.novell:12059
From: leonardz@sgi2.mathstat.uoguelph.ca
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.novell
Subject: lpr & novell printing to HP LJ III
Date: 28 Jan 1993 10:24:59 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics & Statistics, U of Guelph
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sgi2.mathstat.uoguelph.ca

       We have an HP laserjet III with  MBytes of Ram. It is currently
hooked up to a PC parallel port and shared through a switch box. I have
been asked to recommend two alterations.

1)     Make the printer a postscript printer

2)     Make the printer avialable over the network.

       We need : novell printer availability for PCs and lpr 
	         availability for the Unix systems.


For 1 )
       a ) What are useful options. I need to trade off cost vs speed.
           The main uses will be printing Wordperfect from a Novell
	   spooler (see below) and ascii and postscript coming in via
	   lpr. There will be some, but not a lot, of graphics.
       b ) Should memory also be upgraded? I am getting conflicting
           advice on this.
       c ) What are relative costs?

For 2)
       I have been told about 2 choices:

       A) Get two old PCs with floppies, (hard disk not required)
          put ethernet cards in them and boot one as a dedicated
          Novell print server (this one has the printer directly
          attached). The other is booted as a GW between lpr and Novell
          to route lpr reuests to the novell print server.

       B) Milan and Lantronix have advertised hardware which attaches to 
          the parallel port and ethernet and will spool both Novell and
          lpr requests.

       What experiences have people had with either? 
       Have they got good security and control over who prints? 
       Is there a big efficiency concern with either option?
       What are the cost tradeoffs?

       I will summarise all responses received by Feb. 5. 

       Thanks for your help.
-- 
Len Zaifman
Information Technology Coordinator, College of Physical and Engineering Science
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. N1G 2W1
phone : (519) 824-4747 xt 6566    email : leonardz@Testarossa.cs.uoguelph.ca
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: wsyu@nyx.cs.du.edu (Wei-Yun Yu)
Subject: Need Help for using Wang LPS8 Laser Printer in PC-clone!
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 11:46:04 GMT


I current got a Wang LPS8 Laset Printer. It was used for  Wang
mainframe computer. The menu only describe how to connect to
mainframe by using BNC and TNC connector. There is another one 25-pin 
connector, but the menu didn't say what kind of interface it is. I
guess it is serial port. However, I bought a Female/male 25 pin 
cable to connect it to PC. It doesn't work.

Is anybody there have experience of using this kind of laser printer?
Pleae e-mail to me if you have any information about it. Thanks in 
advance for your help.

-Steven
From: cnwietho@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Carsten Wiethoff)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: How does a HP550C work?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:03:56 GMT
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de

As I understand it, a HP550 does have two print-heads, one for
color and the other for b&w. But can these print-heads work together
independently or is it just a head changing mechanism?
Can it print black and color in one line? Without changing heads?

Carsten Wiethoff (pwi@dsun9.hmi.de)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: michael@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Michael Kassler)
Subject: Printing return addresses on Canon laser beam printers
Summary: Reverse landscape unavailable in CaPSL ISO mode
Keywords: Canon, address, smudge, return address
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 01:45:12 GMT

In reply to my previous query, ahill@boi.hp.com said that smudged
return addresses are a common envelope-printing problem when printing
is done in normal landscape mode. He suggested printing be done in reverse
landscape mode.

The Canon LBP-8III printers, and the CaPSL language, do not support
reverse landscape printing in the normal ISO mode. The VDM mode does allow
this as well as printing at any specified angle; however, the VDM mode is
less convenient for printing envelopes (as I understand it, for instance,
the VDM mode does not interpret a carriage return code as an instruction
to move to the beginning of the next line). Has anyone developed software
to invoke VDM mode to achieve reverse landscape printing, software that
could be called by a word processor such as WordPerfect?

Surely there must be others in the world who are using Canon printers to
print return addresses on envelopes. What solutions have they adopted?

Michael Kassler

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: rt12@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (R. M. Tsay)
Subject: Sun 3/80 and Epson LQ-570
Keywords: printer
Organization: Cornell Information Technologies
Date: 26 Jan 93 01:56:17 GMT

Can anyone tell me whether a PC printer such as Epson LQ-570 can work
with a Sun 3/80?  Thank you.

Rueyming Tsay
--
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    Rueyming Tsay                           Cornell University  
    rt12@crux2.cit.cornell.edu              Ithaca, New York 14853
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From: rclaude@worldbank.org (Ray Claude, 885/46, R6013, 32040)
Subject: Re: Need recommendations for 17ppm Postscript p
Reply-To: rclaude@worldbank.org
Organization: The World Bank
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 16:02:19 GMT

Have you looked into the Talaris 1794 printer.
Give them a call (619)587-0787.



From: mark@hpcpbla.bri.hp.com (Mark Simms)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:49:11 GMT
Subject: Re: I've got a ThinkJet and a few simple questions...
Organization: HP Computer Peripherals Bristol, UK
From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Subject: Re: Accuracy of Laserjet 4?
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 02:53:03 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.205118.18289@serval.net.wsu.edu> dmiller@beta.tricity.wsu.edu (David L. Miller) writes:
>Has anyone done any accuracy testing of the LJ4?  I am thinking about getting 
>one for printing 1:1 PC board layouts, but I need to know if they are accurate 
>enough.

I suspect your biggest problem will be shrinkage or stretching of the paper
itself, not accuracy of the printer.  There will be a lot of variation among
different kinds of paper.
-- 
+ Michael A. Covington
+ Artificial Intelligence Programs
+ The University of Georgia
+ Athens, GA 30602-7415              (706) 542-0359
From: psmith@alfred.carleton.ca (Peter Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: While we're at it, what about 4'D'?(was re: 4P)
Date: 21 Jan 93 18:48:33 GMT
Organization: Carleton University

It seems to me that one of the sister models of each new series
typically comes out first.  Unless I'm mistaken, that is the 'P'.
Since the 4P isn't out, I guess that suggests quite a wait for the 4D.

Am I correct?
From: Manny.Nosowsky@f201.n914.z8.rbbs-net.ORG (Manny Nosowsky)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: HP 4 Windows Screen Font Support
Date: 25 Jan 93 05:03:20 GMT


 KW> I recently received the HP 4/4M Windows printer driver from HP, 
 KW> but they failed to send the screen fonts that correspond the 
 KW> the built-in HP fonts. Does anyone have them? Are these 
 KW> available by ftp? Thanks in advance.
     
Mine just came in the mail yesterday. I made no special request. They just
came from HP. Good luck!


 * Origin: PCUG BBS - San Francisco HST/V.32 415-621-2609 (8:914/201.0)
From: d91-han@ludd.luth.se (Andersson Henrik)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Want a HP deskjet 500C
Date: 24 Jan 93 23:03:47 GMT
Organization: Lule} Tekniska H|gskolas Datorf|rening - Ludd

I'm intreted in buying a HP deskjet 500C

                   /Hinken

d91-han@ludd.luth.se
From: bs@Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Wanted: PCL escape codes for DeskJet 550C
Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:45:38 GMT
Organization: EUnet Backbone, Dortmund, Germany
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net
Keywords: PCL, DeskJet

In article <1993Jan26.084619.27206@dxcern.cern.ch>, richard@dxcern.cern.ch (Richard Schweitzer) writes:
|> I bought recently a HP 550C deskjet printer. In the user manual there is no ex-
|> planation how to select the 2 cartridges and to select the differents colors...
|> If somebody on the net has these informations, could he email me the PCL codes.

In the same vein: How and where does one obtain a prper manual for a LJ IV ?
The manual that comes with the printer has a list of pcl/pjl/hpgl commands
but unfortunately does not say how one actually defines characters or sends
bitmaps or compressed bitmaps. Also, what does this manual cost ?

Thanks,
	Bernard
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: fredrick@acd.ucar.edu (Timothy Fredrick)
Subject: Need recommendations for 17ppm Postscript printer (besides QMS PS1700)
Organization: Ntl Center for Atmospheric Research - Atmospheric Chemistry Div
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 20:53:50 GMT

We are almost at wits end with QMS and our recently-purchased QMS PS 1700.
On two different interfaces it will occasionally stop printing a page and
start printing bit-patterns.  This is even with the input-stream sensing
feature turned off.  QMS's technical support will take messages ad-infinitum,
but nobody will ever get back to you.  And the fax-line for help yields
the same result.  We didn't have this problem with a demo unit that QMS
brought to our organization last summer.

Anyway, in case we have to force our salesperson to take the unit back, can
you offer any recommendations for 17ppm printing?  Our requirements are:

      - As "standard" Adobe PostScript level II as possible.  The HP
        LaserJet-III with the Adobe cartridge, for instance, balks at some
        of our PostScript that works fine on Apple-manufactured printers.
      - 16 MB of memory
      - 17 ppm printing
      - Duplex paper-handling if possible
      - Availability of an Ethertalk (not TCP/IP) interface.
      - A fairly large paper-input (say 500-1000 pages)

Any suggestions or advise on our bit-pattern problem will be appreciated.

Thanks.

--Tim Fredrick
  National Center for Atmospheric Research, Atmospheric Chemistry Division
  Boulder, CO 80307-1000
From: mdgoodma@cbda8.apgea.army.mil (Mack Goodman Have Goals and Faith  )
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: How MUCH should I ask for an old LaserJet + printer?
Date: 26 Jan 1993 08:30:27 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Could someone , " in the know" tell me about how much a person could
sell an old laserjet + for?

400?
300?

Thanks
Mack
mdgoodma@cbda8.apgea.army.mil
:wq
From: tims@bvc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Truetype init/ext. for Mac printing?
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:10:06 CST
Organization: Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, IA

Is there an INIT/Extension available that will allow users to use TrueType
fonts on their Mac running system 6.x?  Where can I find it?  Please e-mail
me at tims@bvc.edu or post to this group.

Thanks!

Tim Seydel / Buena Vista College / Storm Lake, IA
internet address:  tims@bvc.edu
From: rdb@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Benedict)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Canon
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:46:33 GMT
Reply-To: rdb@po.CWRU.Edu (Robert D. Benedict)
Distribution: inet
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu




Does anyone know of an 800 number for Canon that I could 
get some info on the bubblejet printers? Also anyone with 
experience with these I would appreciate your insite.


Thanks,
rdb
-- 
Robert D. Benedict	                        Case Western Reserve University
rdb@po.cwru.edu	                                            Clarke Tower
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