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From: kmason@hydra.unm.edu (Kirk L. Mason)
Subject: Re: Looking for best source for TI microLaser RAM ...
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 92 23:29:16 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Summary: Bizmart?
Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers 

I think bizmart is discontinuing their offering of the T.I.

I was in the local one a week or so ago and they had a few on their "clearance"
table.  No price because they didn't know what it went to!!!

It shouldn't hurt much to check.

Kirk.
From: FNOTMAN@ESTEC.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Health effects of laser printers
Date: 1 Oct 92 15:55:21 GMT
 <1992Sep30.033709.6236@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
Organisation: European Space Technology Centre (E.S.T.E.C)


>From: mreese@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mike Reese)
>Subject: Re: Health effects of laser printers
>Date: Wed, 30 Sep 92 03:37:09 GMT
>
>Yes, it is indeed ozone.  As a matter of fact, HP's high-end printers
>(IIID and IIISi) actually have an ozone filter inside of them.

 Beg to differ, HP are quite proud that the IIISi does not present an Ozone
problem. Older manuals say "all laser printers....", IIISi manual says "Most
Laser printers....". It then goes on to explain that the Ozone is caused by
the Corona Discharge wire which they've dispensed with (don't know how), thus
no Ozone problem.

 They also don't appear to have a filter in P-type L-jets, I assume they don't
consider the usage adequate to pose a problem.
From: brad@research.nj.nec.com (Brad Gianulis)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Anyone using a Phaser IISD?
Date: 6 Oct 92 15:04:17 GMT
Article-I.D.: research.1992Oct6.150417.1076
Organization: NEC Research Institute
Originator: brad@eames

In article <BvEMCD.Cpr@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> mark@cita.toronto.edu writes:
>Does anyone have any experience with the new Tektronix Phaser IISD?  And
>by "experience", what I mean is: Are you actually using one for your own
>work, as opposed to having seen some make-the-product-look-great outputs
>spewing forth from a model in a trade show booth.
>
>We had been planning to submit an equipment grant proposal for a Kodak
>XL7700, when someone suggested that we look at the IISD, claimed to be
>Tek's answer to the 7700, at less than half the cost.  I've been told
>that the quality is comparable (the Tektronix salesman claims that it's
>even better), but I'd be interested in hearing from people who've bought
>one.
>
>And one side comment/question:  Given that this printer (if you believe
>all the hype) produces output of significantly higher quality than any
>of the other Phaser II or Phaser III printers, why on earth did Tek give
>it a name ("Phaser IISD") which is certain to cause confusion?  Why not
>the "Phaser IV", or some totally different name?  Just wondering ...
>
>Mark Bartelt                                                416/978-5619
>Canadian Institute for                             mark@cita.toronto.edu
>Theoretical Astrophysics                           mark@cita.utoronto.ca
>
>"Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying."  -  Dylan, on laundry day
>          [ singing "It's all right, ma (I'm only bleaching)" ]



Well, we don't have one that we are using, but we do have a XL7720 and
we brought in the Phaser IISD in for a demo (always a good thing to do
before purchasing). I was able to send PostScript data of whatever
images I thought would be a good test. In fact, I sent images of varying
colors and shades to both the Kodak and the Tek and then compared the
outputs side by side. I was pretty impressed with the Tek, although the
color matching was not quite as good as with the Kodak (blues tend to
not show up as well, but the Tek does have a dip-switch that is supposed
to help with this). The continuous tone capability was excellent, so
quality-wise the Tek is definitely worth the price difference.

Pros:
	Good output quality
	Accepts PostScript directly (the Kodak does not)
	Reasonable speed (5 Meg of data - 6 min to process, 3 min to
		print - about the same as Kodak)
	Cost per page is less than Kodak ($3 prints, $4 transp. - Kodak
		is $4 prints, $7.50 transp.).

Cons:
	Printable area is less than Kodak:
		8.1 x 8.6 (Kodak is 7.5 x 10 inches)
		(for me, its the vertical dimension that is more
		crucial)

If we had to do it over again, we would probably buy the Tek, mainly
because of the incredible cost difference ($10k vs. $25k). Oh, and yes,
the SD is definitely better than the rest of the Phaser II or III line.

Get a demo unit in and send it your own data.

Good luck.
From: yeap@eecs.nwu.edu (Kok-Hoo Yeap)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: SHINKO CHC-455 color ribbon, where to buy ?
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:34:21 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
Originator: yeap@geo2.eecs.nwu.edu

We inherited a "SHINKO CHC-455 Color Hard Copy" printer.
It uses a dry ink "ribbon" that comes in a roller.
There are three colors: red, yellow and blue.
The "ribbon" is actually a roll of cellophane coated with dry color ink,
like carbon paper.  It looks like a roll of toilet paper with red,
yellow and blue alternately colored on a every sheet.
Each sheet has only one color and is approximately size A4.
The printer makes 3 passes for each print, I suppose once for each color.
The roller can support approx. 15 prints and we have to rewind
it (manually) to reuse it. 

However, the "ribbon" is not reusable in the sense that the negative of
a printed image can be seen on the color cellophane sheet, just
like used carbon paper.
We don't know the supplier of the printer either.

Anyone know where to buy these rollers ?
Also, is there "permanent" type roller that is truely reusable ?

Any information is very much appreaciated.

-- 
/  Gary (Kok-Hoo) Yeap       yeap@eecs.nwu.edu  \
\  Department of EECS, Northwestern University  /
From: salehi@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu (Masoud Salehi)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: NEC silentwriter 95
Date: 3 Oct 92 15:59:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: splinter.SALEHI.92Oct3115949
Distribution: comp.periphs.printers
Organization: College of Engineering, Northeastern University


I am in the market for a postscript printer that is capable of emulating
an HP printer. From the revies that I have read it seems that NEC
silentwriter 95 is a good candidate. My other candidates are HP IIIp with
postscript, which is slightly more expensive and Texas Instruments Microlaser.

I would appreciate if you would share your experience with the NEC printer
with me and how you compare it with other printers. By the way is NEC capable
of emulating HP PCL4 (Is PCL4 backward compatible with PCL5?)


Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Health effects of laser printers
From: graeme@hart.actrix.gen.nz (Graeme Hart)
Date: 30 Sep 92 10:26:24 GMT

edwards@world.std.com (Jonathan Edwards @ IntraNet, Inc.) once wrote....
>What, if any, are the health effects of laser printers?
>I can smell some sort of fumes emitted by my HP Laserjet.

Probably Ozone.
>I guess this is the solvent used in the toner.
>What is this stuff?
>And is it heavier or lighter than air (so I can properly position a
>ventilation duct to get rid of it)? Thanks.

If you read your manual, it has recommendations about positioning etc,
also, you need to change the Ozone filter periodically (I think it's 
every 100,000 copies??)

>
>
>-- 
>Jonathan Edwards				edwards@intranet.com
>IntraNet, Inc					617-527-7020

----
Graeme Hart                                     Telephone:  64 4 3829124  
graeme@hart.actrix.gen.nz                       Snail Mail: PO Box 11865    
                                                            Wellington       
                                                            New Zealand
From: rg9538@ehsn14.cen.uiuc.edu (Ronald E Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: IBM 4029 in Postscript mode
Date: 26 Sep 92 19:01:33 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

fstab@acad3.alaska.edu writes:

>Hello,

>I have an IBM 4029 Laserprinter which I am trying to run in
>Postscript mode.  I have experianced several problems with the
>printer in postscript mode.  I am using Windows with the 
>IBM 4029 Laser printer PS/17 driver.  Some of the problems
>are that when a job is sent to it it flashes flushing and
>eats the job.  It also is getting postscript errors and
>will not change paper drawers when a program asks it to.
>Is their a know bug, or a special way to set up this 
>printer. 
>Thanks,

>tracy beavers - sxtab@orca.alaska.edu

Have you tried downloading the latest, greatest PostScript
driver from Lexmark's BBS?  (Lexmark makes the 4029)
The number is (606) 232-5653, and the self-extracting
29W31_PS.EXE file is dated 9/01/92.  I don't know if that
will fix your problem, but it's a possibility.  I have
downloaded the driver, installed it, but have yet to test
it.  If you want to save the cost of a download, and you
can tell me how to send you this file, I'll be glad to 
send it to you.  I'm new to this net stuff, and haven't 
figured out all the tricks!

Regards,

Ron Garnett, rg9538@ewshp.cen.uiuc.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: armando@synapse.ee.ufl.edu (Armando Barreto)
Subject: HELP!: NeXT 68040 to NEC SilentWriter2 model 90 connection
Keywords: NeXT, NEC SilentWriter2 model 90, Serial connection
Reply-To: armando@synapse.ee.ufl.edu
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 92 20:46:37 GMT


Hello!

I am attempting to connect a NEC SilentWriter2 Model 90 PostScript printer to a  
68040 NeXT machine, running NeXT Step 3.0. I am trying to use Serial port A  
from the NeXT for this.

Has anyone out there experience in making such a connection?

Any input e-mailed to :

armando@synapse.ee.ufl.edu

will be appreciated.

In particular, there are some answers that would be very helpful:

1) Does the NEC SilentWriter2 Model 90 require hardware flow control?
i.e. do I need to output to ttyfa instead of ttya?

2) Do I need to use a NULL-MODEM Connection?, i.e. the following pairs of  
signals are crossed from one end to the other:

DCD & DTR
RXD & TXD
CTS & RTS

3) I am trying to match the following settings in the printer:
9600 Baud
8 data bits
1 stop bits
no parity (or space)

Do I need to set any of these parameters in the NeXT (How) ?

(* After selecting the NEC SilentWriter2 Model 90 in the Printer Manager  
application, the corresponding report in printcap shows 9600 for the baud rate,  
but  it has only a ttya definition.)

I thank you for your consideration to this question.

Armando Barreto



Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: okunewck@psuvax1.cs.psu.edu (Phil OKunewick)
Subject: NEED FUJITSU second-hand parts supplier
Reply-To: okunewck@cs.psu.edu
Organization: Random, at best
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 16:15:20 GMT


   Does anybody know of a supplier of second-hand fujitsu printer
parts?

   We've got a fujitsu M3041D printer with a Dataproducts interface.
We'd like to convert this to a Centronics interface, to hook it to
newer equipment.  It's a robust, fast, quiet lineprinter, but it's
host machine with the DPC interface will soon be retired.  I'd like
to keep this thing running on another machine.

   I bought a conversion kit from the standard Fujitsu supplier, and
afterwards found that it was impossible to use this kit with our
printer's ancient control board.  (Newer boards can be converted.)
The board I need costs $1250 new; I'd rather buy a used board for a
much lower price if they are available.

   So if anybody knows of a supplier, please drop me a note.

Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
From: ahill@boi.hp.com (Andy Hill)
Subject: Re: IBM 4019 Laserjet problems
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 22:57:01 GMT
Reply-To: ahill@boi.hp.com
Organization: LaserJets by Bill & Dave
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

Wow.  Didn't know "LaserJet" had made it into the "generic" realm.  We
must be doing something right (BTW, you'll be hearing from our lawyers
<grin>).

Anyway, check that you aren't downloading the TrueType fonts as graphics;
it's possible that you're just sending too much data (the LaserJet driver
should have a "send TrueType fonts as graphics" box that should be left
unchecked).  You may also have too many fonts in the spreadsheet (LJ2 maxes
out at 32).

Andy Hill
ahill@boi.hp.com
From: wb9omc@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (Duane P Mantick)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Help with a Printronix 300 printer
Date: 30 Sep 92 22:11:37 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network

p3ay@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (Bill Noon) writes:

>I have a Printronix 300 printer that keeps halting with the check light on 
>every few pages.  We don't have a manual for this beast and the frustration
>level is rising.

	A P300 without proper care can make you want to tear your hair
and other bodily parts right out.....

>Has anybody out there had a simular problem (and found a fix)?  

	As often as not, you'll find dust or paper chaff has gotten in
front of the Paper Motion Detector (PMD) which is on the bottom of the
left paper tractor.  If it is not blocked, the opto-detector itself has
been known to go defective or come unplugged or have enough corrosion on the
leads to make a poor connection.  A less common problem is a logic failure
such that the printer fails to "see" input from the PMD.

>Could someone send me the address of where I can get a manual.

	Sure.

		Printronix
		17500 Cartwright Road BOX 19559
		Irvine, CA 92713

		Phone (714) 863-1900

	Manual is part number 140294-001 and most recent price is
	$109.00

	Yes, I know that's expensive....but it IS a pretty good manual,
	better than most I've seen.

	WARNING: the most recent Spares book I got just last week does NOT
	list this book!  I hope they have not stopped selling maintenance
	manuals.......

>Please e-me directly with any and all responces.

	OOPS! Sorry, didn't see this before I started the followup....

Duane
wb9omc@harbor.ecn.purdue.edu
From: mbevan@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Mark Bevan)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Serial selector switch?
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 92 02:10:12 MDT
Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #3, Edmonton, AB, Canada

What pins are connected to the switch on a serial Selector switch?
(also known as a Data Switch)  Oh yeah the port is 25 pin!

Info appreciated  thanks Mark 

Mark Bevan              mbevan@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca 
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: thail@seas.gwu.edu (Samuel R. Posten)
Subject: windows and high speed
Originator: thail@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 06:54:17 GMT

Is there any way to set MS Windows to allow comm settings higher than 19.2
k baud.  If not, then why bother having comm packages allow for 58.6 baud
etc with high speed modems if windows can't handle it?
Sam

Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: rahayden@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Robert Hayden)
Subject: Problem Monitor
Organization: University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 18:46:20 GMT

I hope this is the proper forum to ask this.

I have a VGA monitor that is on the verge of a meltdown it seems.  It is
about 2 years old and came as part of the system I purchased from
Micro-Generation.  I believe it is a MAG-Computronic monitor (at least
that name sticks in my mind).  It is a 14" interlaced system.

In any case, the problem I am having with it is that it will randomly fade
about 50 to 75 percent making it really quite impossible to read.  No
amount of fiddling with the brightness or contrast knobs seems to fix it. 
So far I've check for the standard loose cables (none), checked to see
that the connection to the VGA card was secure (yup), checked to see if
the card was seated in the motherboard properly (uh-huh) and even moved it
to another slot with the same problems.  I checked the power connections
from the power supply to the motherboard an they appear solid. It is a
250w power supply and I have 5 cards in the machine.  In addition I have 2
3.5" hard drives, 2 floppies, and a Colorado Tape drive.  I have not added
anything to the computer in 6 months and this problem started about a
month ago.

I do not have available the option to swap monitors with someone else to
try to localize the problem but at the same time I'm hesitant to bring the
monitor anywhere because they will want $40 just to put it on the bench..


This may be unrelated and I only just noticed this, but if the monitor is
dimmed, if i am active on the keyboard, the monitor will usually revert to
normal after about 10 minutes or so.  I am not sure if this is just
coincidence or if they are tied together.

Suggestions would be most welcomed and if you need more information, I'll
be happy to provide it.

Thanks.

Robert.


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 rahayden@UMAXC.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU  | from God dividing the | reflect the views
 AQ650@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU    | universe by zero      | of my employer.
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: tyler.brown@EMCB.CC.UTAH.EDU (TYLER JAMES BROWN)
Subject: Hissing im my modem. Help please?
Organization: University of Utah
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 01:22:42 GMT

	I have been using my Hayes V-series 9600 Smartmodem for the past 
several years with no problem. Put a couple days ago, I tried to call a BBS 
and I could hear a loud hissing coming from the modem speaker. Apparently, 
the modem can hear it to because I cannot connect to any other modems. I 
thought it may have been a line problem but when I unplug the phone line 
from the modem and type ATDT, I can still hear the hissing.
	Does anyone have any idea what is causing this?

		Thanks  

		     Tyler
From: padgett@cs.utexas.edu (Don Padgett)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Info needed on Xylogics 450, 451, and 7053 SMD Disk Controllers
Date: 6 Oct 1992 18:21:55 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: godzilla.cs.utexas.edu
Keywords: Xylogics, Controllers, 450, 451, 7053

I need to get my hands on the data sheets for the Xylogics 450, 451,
and 7053 SMD disk controllers.  These controllers are used in Sun 
systems.  I am specifically interested in obtaining information 
necessary for writing device drivers for these controllers.

Can someone give me a pointer to this information?  Any information 
would be appreciated.

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Don Padgett                   INTERNET: padgett@cs.utexas.edu
Austin, TX                    UUCP:     uunet!cs.utexas.edu!padgett
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Newsgroups: comp.periphs
From: rwilson@uts.cc.wayne.edu (Ron Wilson)
Subject: Finch 9410 hard disk (CDC/Magnetic Peripherals, Inc)
Organization: Wayne State University, Detroit Mich.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 23:32:47 GMT

Hi,

We have a Finch 9410 (made by CDC/Magnetic Peripherals, Inc) hard disk in one
of our older NMR spectremeters.  The disk drive is sick.  Unfortunately, the
manufacturer, Nicolet, of the computer portion of the instrument no longer
supports the hardware we have.  Since replacing the computer portion of the 
instrument would also require replacing most of the electronics as well, we
really need to find either a replacement for this disk drive (Finch 9410) or
some one who can repair it.

Thanks in advance.

rlw@chem.wayne.edu
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.questions
From: "David Herron" <david@twg.com>
Subject: **BLUSH** (was: SysV touch on files named with digits)
Sensitivity: Personal
Encoding: 13 TEXT , 4 TEXT 
Conversion: Prohibited
Organization: The Wollongong Group, Inc., Palo Alto, CA
Conversion-With-Loss: Prohibited
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:41:04 GMT

Okay.. okay.. okay ...

Y'all can stop calling me a youngster, and where do I turn in
my wizards badge anyway??

I must say, however, that steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) gets
the (erm) award for the most succinct answer.  Namely: "./$x".

(Geez, this is as stupid as the "how do I remove a file whose
name starts with '-' question... (ANSWER: use ./-file)).

If you don't mind I'll go to a corner and punish myself by learning
something about DOS.

<- David Herron <david@twg.com> (work) <david@davids.mmdf.com> (home)
<-
<- During the '80s Usenet's mantra was: "Not all the world's a VAX".
<- During the '90s I hope it becomes:   "Not all the world's DOS (ick)".
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Re: With SysV touch -- what if the file name is only digits??
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:33:13 GMT

In article <19228@smoke.brl.mil> gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1992Sep25.183819.6396@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
>>In other words.. there are legitimate cases in which touch will not work.
>>This is a bug.  How does one Officially report bugs to USL ???
>
>It's a design deficiency, not a bug.  (There IS a difference.)  The time
>argument should have been designed as an option argument so it could be
>distinguished from the file arguments.
>
>A workaround is to invoke "touch /tmp/X ${i}${j}{q}" in your example,
>which is not elegant but lets you get the job done.
 
or even                   "touch /dev/null ${i}${j}${k}"
-- 
Art Kamlet  a_s_kamlet@att.com  AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: With SysV touch -- what if the file name is only digits??
Date: 30 Sep 92 04:51:05 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Lab, APG MD.

In article <1992Sep25.183819.6396@twg.com> david@twg.com (David Herron) writes:
>In other words.. there are legitimate cases in which touch will not work.
>This is a bug.  How does one Officially report bugs to USL ???

It's a design deficiency, not a bug.  (There IS a difference.)  The time
argument should have been designed as an option argument so it could be
distinguished from the file arguments.

A workaround is to invoke "touch /tmp/X ${i}${j}{q}" in your example,
which is not elegant but lets you get the job done.

I think you report bugs by using the "trouble" utility or otherwise
invoking the paid support service.  If you're not paying for support
I don't think there's an official way to report bugs.  Try telling
your system vendor.
From: spoelhof@kodak.com (Gordon C. Spoelhof)
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
Subject: wanted psos/phile directory list algorithm/code
Keywords: psos+, phile+, directory list
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:13:36 GMT
Reply-To: spoelhof@kodak.com (Gordon C. Spoelhof)
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company - Health Sciences Division

Can anyone share source to a recursive "list" procedure for pSOS+/pHILE+.
The procedure must implement some form of Unix like globbing.  Failing
that, does anyone know of a simple way to approximate the Unix stat(2)
function in pSOS+/pHILE+?

Thanks in advance.




Gordon Spoelhof / Eastman Kodak Co. / HSD 2-8-C-39105
100 Carlson Road / Rochester, NY 14653-9105
e-mail:  spoelhof@kodak.com       phone: (716)253-9734
Newsgroups: comp.realtime
From: eletanjm@nuscc.nus.sg (TAN JIN MENG)
Subject: Data Acquisition Software 
Organization: National University of Singapore
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 04:14:29 GMT

This is regarding ICON based data acquisition software. 

You know...
have one module (icon) for a data acquisition board, another for real
time plotting, another for signal processing, another for logging etc. 
Then to put together an app, you just point and drag the appropriate icons 
and link them together in an object oriented fashion.

At my workplace, we have WorkBench. I'll be getting an evaluation copy
of LABTECH Notebook next month. I'd just like to know 

1) Your experiences with these packages.

2) Any other packages which are suitable.

You can email me if you want. If there is sufficient interest, I'll
summarise and post.

Thanks in advance.

jin meng