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Date:         Fri, 18 Dec 1992 16:54:20 -0600
Reply-To:     "Pat Gathright" <patg@TENET.EDU>
From:         "Pat Gathright" <patg@TENET.EDU>
Subject:      HP LaserJet 4M printer

Since I am the one who ask the originial question, I am pleased to report
that I took delivery on a new LaserJet 4M printer today. We did print our
a FreeHand file and had no trouble at all. The speed and quality of the
printer has amazed my students and they are willing to give some of their
Christmas vacation to meet an early yearbook deadline.

        Pat Gathright (patg@tenet.edu)


On Fri, 18 Dec 1992, Jeff Bone wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 08:24:32 CDT
> From: Jeff Bone <JBONE@dopig.uab.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list PAGEMAKR <PAGEMAKR@indycms.bitnet>
> Subject: TAN: Mail for Barry Hansen
>
> Sorry to waste the bandwidth folks but Barry Hansen from HP sent me an Email
> message regarding the HP LaserJet 4 and when I went to respond our mail
> server rejected his address.  Since he obviously "listens" to this LIST I am
> forwarding it to him this way.  After reading my response I thought it would
> be appropriate on the list anyway since he was inquiring about the problem
> summary of the HP LaserJet 4 that I posted a couple of days ago.
>
> Unable to deliver message because:
>
>       barry_hansen@mac_smtp.boi.hp.com : 501 Syntax Error. Unexpected Token '_
   '
>
> Returned Text follows
> -------------------
> Message-ID: <MAILQUEUE-101.921218074917.320@dopig.uab.edu>
> To:           "Barry Hansen" <barry_hansen@mac_smtp.boi.hp.com>
> From:         "Jeff Bone"  <JBONE@DOPIG.UAB.EDU>
> Organization: UAB Photo & Graphics
> Date:         18 Dec 92 07:49:17 CDT
> Subject:      HP LaserJet 4 Problems
> Reply-to:     jbone@dopig.uab.edu
> Priority:     normal
> X-mailer:     Pegasus Mail v2.3 (R4).
>
> You wrote, regarding my post of the reported problem the LaserJet 4 has
> with PostScript output generated from FreeHand...
>
> > I believe that you are the original poster for the above information.  I am
> > extremely interested in the source of the data for your summary.  Can you
> > please provide me with the article and publication?
>
> I've got the actual pubs at home with Volume and Page Numbers (provided my
> wife hasn't trashed them) so I'll give you the exact info later, but I'm
> fairly certain it was this weeks InfoWorld, MacWeek, and PCWeek.  Each of
> these pubs, I think, had brief articles or "white page" last minute
> updates indicating minor problems that end- users were reporting.  The bulk
> of the information comes from a larger article that, I believe, was in
> InfoWorld.
>
> InfoWorld is a trade rag that I don't put a whole lot of stock in, but the
> article did state that users had reported a difficulty with specifically
> FreeHand 3.1 and other illustration-type packages that makes heavy use of
> custom PostScript dicts.
>
> Glad to see that HP is listening, does this mean that you guys are gonna ship
> all LIST members a LaserJet 4M just to prove to us that there really are no
> problems? :) I would definitely encourage you guys to at least make a post to
> the LIST to refute my summary of the reports and the charges they make.  It
> seems there are a significant group of us (myself included) that are
> potential buyers of the unit.  While I personally have a lot of confidence in
> HP quality and response to problems, there may have been a few "listening"
> that are not quite as convinced, especially in light of the amount of traffic
> on the subject.
>
>
>
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> ** Electronic Imaging Coordinator            AppleLink: jbone
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