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LaserJet Setup Utility Version 4.4
Guy Gallo
P.O. Box 344
Piermont, New York 10968
This program is "Shareware". You are encouraged to copy and
freely distribute Laserjet. If you use the program you are
asked to send payment, in an amount comensurate with its
utility, to the above address.
I. REQUIREMENTS:
1. An IBM PC or close compatible computer.
2. 128K of available memory; 70K memory over and above
application program memory if you intend to use Laserjet
in the memory resident mode.
3. The Hewlett Packard Laserjet or Laserjet Plus.
4. One of the following font cartridges.
1) 92286A - Courier 10 point, 12 pitch - Roman-8
a. Bold and Italic For Courier 10
b. Line Printer (16.66 cpi) landscape
2) 92286L - Courier 10 point, 12 pitch
a. Bold and Italic for Courier 10
b. Line Printer (16.66 cpi) in both landscape and
portrait
3) 92286B - Times Roman 10 point, Proportional - USACII
a. Times Roman 10 point normal, bold, italic
b. Times Roman 8 point (no bold or italic)
c. Helvetica 14.4 point (bold only);
d. Line Printer (landscape) 16.6 cpi
4) 92286F - Times Roman 10 point TMS Proportional
a. Same as 92286B except the Line Printer font is
portrait instead of landscape.
5) 92286D - Prestige Elite - 10 point, 12 pitch
a. Note: This cartridge overrides Courier 10 as the
default for the LaserJet. Resetting the printer
invokes Prestige Elite 10 point, 12 cpi with the
Roman-8 character set.
b. USACII is available from the Font menu.
c. Bold and Italic.
6) 92286E - Letter Gothic 12 point, 12 pitch
a. Bold and Italic
b. Like Prestige Elite, this font overides the Courier
10 default
II. LOADING:
Laserjet can be invoked on of two ways:
1. As a stand alone program.
From the DOS prompt type LASERJET <RETURN>; the
program will present the main menu.
2. As a memory resident program
From the DOS prompt type LASERJET /L <RETURN>
This loads Laserjet into your computer's memory,
setting aside 79Kb of memory for its exclusive use. A
short message will be displayed, if all goes well,
informing you of the current "HotKey" -- the key used
to invoke Laserjet from within you other applications.
III. COMMAND SELECTION
Selecting a main menu item and pressing <RETURN> invokes
a sub-menu. Alternately, pressing the first letter of
the main menu item will access the appropriate sub-menu.
Similarly, the sub-menu can be accessed either by
selecting the item with the cursor keys and pressing
<RETURN> or by selecting the CAPITALIZED letter of the
appropriate selection.
e.g. <P> from the main menu pulls down the "Primary"
sub-menu; <P> from the "Primary sub-menu" sets the
font to "line pr Portrait".
IV. THE ESC KEY:
Pressing <Esc> from any selection prompt aborts the
command; from any sub-menu it returns to the main menu;
from the main menu it Quits the program.
V. THE MENUS:
1. Primary and Secondary
The Laserjet allows TWO fonts to be selected at any given
time. However, only ONE is "active".
The fonts supported under these menus are:
1) Times roman 10pt
2) Courier
3) Elite
4) Gothic
5) Helvetica 14pt - sets to
6) times Roman 8pt - sets to tiny proportional spaced
font
7) line pr Portrait - sets to 16.66 pitch in portrait
orientation
8) line pr Landscape - sets to 16.66 pitch in landscape
orientation
9) Bold - sets bold
10) Italic - sets italic
11) Active - switches to primary or secondary font
2. Miscellaneous
1) Reset printer - set to powerup defaults.
2) Eject current page
3) Manual feed - activate manual feed (this can also be
done manually)
4) Cassette feed - activate casette feed
5) Wrap lines - lines that extend into the non-printing
area will be wrapped to the next line.
6) Dont wrap lines - lines that extend into the
non-printing area will be cut short.
7) Number of copies - select the number of copies to
print of the next document.
8) Page length - specifies the page length in number of
lines (using the currently selected line spacing);
lines per inch x inches per page.
9) Send custom code - this option allows you to edit a
printer code and send it to the printer. Once
you have created a "custom code" you can save it
to disk as a permanent part of Laserjet by
selecting Save setup under the Options menu.
10) Font Example - prints a short test at the current
settings. This shows font, margins, pitch, etc.
3. Format
1) Left margin - sets the number of spaces, at the
currently selected pitch, to offset the left margin.
2) Right margin - sets the number of characters per
line, at currently selected pitch.
3) Top margin - sets the number of lines to skip from
the top of the page; uses the currently selected
number of lines per inch.
4) Clear margins - clears all margin settings to
powerup defaults.
5) Print pitch - sets the print pitch. This setting
uses Horizontal Spacing and overrides the normal
pitch for the selected font. This allows you to
print Courier at 12 pitch, or Elite at 10 pitch.
Enter the pitch - the number of characters per inch.
NOTE: when using proportional space fonts, only
the SPACE character is affected by the Pitch
commnad. The result is that the characters are
no closer together (or further apart), but the
words are.
6) lines per Inch
7) Sixty-six lines - many IBM programs that cannot be
controlled by the HP Laserjet assume that a normal
page can print 66 lines per inch. The Laserjet, in
default mode, prints 62 lines per page, 6 lines per
inch. This option sets the Laserjet to print 66
lines per page by creating slightly larger than
normal top and bottom margins, and slightly smaller
vertical increments between lines.
8) Fifty-one lines - This setting is useful if you are
printing in landscape mode.
9) Eighty-six lines - this setting is only useful if
you are printing on legal sized paper.
4. Export
1) Edit labels - create a new envelope; this option
allows you to edit five lines of return address
and five lines of addressee. Press <Esc> to
return to the Edit menu. The label remains in
memory. You can then save it to a file or print
it.
2) Load labels - loads a previously edited and saved
label file.
3) Save labels - saves the label currently in memory
to disk.
4) Print labels - prints the label currently in
memory.
5) Notepad - a 66 line notepad. See below for
details
5. Dos Commands
1) Directory - shows a directory
2) Logged dir - changes currently active path
3) Copy - copies a file; be sure there is enough space on
the target diskette.
4) Rename - rename a DOS file
5) Erase - erase a DOS file
6) Free space - check free disk space on a specified drive
7) Print file - send a file to the Laserjet. See below
for details.
6. Options
1) LaserJet v. 4.4 - displays address for contributions
2) Unload LaserJet - unloads the memory resident version
of Laserjet and frees the memory it had set aside.
WARNING: this must ONLY be invoked from the DOS
command line. If you invoke this command (and
answer yes to the Continue? question) while you are
inside an application program, you will be dumped to
DOS and any unsaved work will be lost.
3) HotKey: Alt-F10 - shows the current HotKey, and
allows you to change it.
Valid HotKey possibilities are:
a. Alt F1 - F10
b. Shift F1-F10
c. Ctrl F1-F10
d. Alt 1-0,-,=
4) Mono CG - No - displays the current setting for whether or
not you are using a monochrome graphics screen. Laserjet
can determine if you have a Monochrome or Graphics adaptor.
It sets the display colors and attributes accordingly.
However, the color settings are sometimes difficult to see
on a graphics system that has a monochrome display. Setting
this option to "Yes" changes the colors to monochrome even
on a graphics screen. This setting can be saved to disk by
selecting Save setup.
5) Save setup - saves the currently active Hotkey and
MonoCG settings permanently to disk so that the next
time you invoke Laserjet with the "/L" parameter, these
customized settings will be the new defaults. This
will also save the current "custom code" from the
Miscellaneous menu.
In order for Laserjet to create a new version of
itself, containing the customized HotKey, the MonoCG
variable, and the current custom code, program must
reside in the currently active directory (you can
change directory under Dos commands), and must be
named LASERJET.COM.
VI. NOTEPAD COMMANDS
1. Function keys
1) Undo last change in current line
2) Tab -
Set tab stop at cursor position;
Clear tab stop at cursor position;
Purge all tab stops.
3) DelLine - Deletes current line
4) Insline - Inserts line at cursor
5) Erase - erases all characters in current line
6) Print (line spacing 1, 2, or 3)
7) Save memo to disk
8) Load memo from disk
9) Clear - erases current memo
10) Help - shows Alt Key functions
2. OTHER ACTIVE KEYS
1) Tab - moves forward to next tab stop (see F3)
2) PgUp - up a screen
3) PgDn - down a screen
4) Home - moves to beginning of current line
5) End - moves to end of current line
6) Ctrl-End - erases from the cursor to the end of line
7) Ctrl-RightArrow - moves forward to next word
8) Ctrl-LeftArrow - moves back to previous word
9) Shift-Tab - move backward to previous tab stop
10) Alt-E - invokes envelope feed
11) Alt-L - activates Landscape Orientation
12) Alt-M - activates Manual Feed
3. FORMATTING:
1) Alt-I - begins and ends Italics
2) Alt-B - begins and ends Bold
3) Alt-U - begins and ends Underline
These codes must be entered a second time in
order to turned off formatting. (e.g.
<alt-u>anyword<alt-u>)
4) Alt-S - makes Secondary font active for the words
that follow until Alt-P is encountered.
5) Alt-P - makes Primary font active again after an
Alt-S (e.g. <alt-s>This would be secondary font
<alt-p>and this in primary).
4. Notes on the Notepad:
1) Landscape (Alt-L or Alt-E) orientation will be reset to
portrait upon exiting the TypeWriter.
2) If you try to load an ascii file larger than 66 lines
LaserJet will read the first 66 lines and then stop.
Avoid this.
3) Nothing will be sent to the LaserJet until you select
Print (F6)
4) With Version 4.3 of Laserjet, the text currently inside the
notepad remains in memory even if you exit to the Main Menu.
This allows you to type a memo, reset printer fonts or
margins, return to the notepad to print.
The text of the notepad will remain available until
1) You Clear the page with F9.
2) You exit the non-memory resident version of Laserjet.
3) You load another memo from disk.
VII. Printing a file through Laserjet
1. The Print command, under Dos commands sub-menu - prints an
ASCII file to the LaserJet in either portrait (55 lines
per page) or landscape (47 lines per page), with page
number and optional header (consisting of filename).
At this time, Laserjet will NOT print WordStar files.
2. Note: The Landscape option of the Print commad sets the
right hand margin (line length) to 160. This enables
you to take advantage of the Line Printer Font (16.6
cpi) on cartrige 92286B. If, however, you are only
using the in ROM landscape Font (Courier 10 cpi), be
aware that any characters beyond 80 (minus left margin)
will not be printed.
3. The left margin is left at 0 for both portrait and landscape
under the Print command. You can set it manually using
the Offset command.
4. There is now an option to print at either 6 lines per inche
or 8 lines per inch. In portrait mode, 6 lines per
inch will print 58 textlines; 8 lines per inch will
print 78 textlines. In landscape mode, 6 lpi will
print 46 textlines; 8 lpi will print 58.
5. A complete RESET will be performed if Print was activated in
Landscape mode; Otherwise Font selections will remain
as selected before entering Print and lines per page
will remain as selected for printing.
VIII. Please address any comments or discovered bugs to
Guy Gallo
at PCSI 1-212-924-6598
The Invention Factory 1-212-431-1194
TextBase BBS 1-212-826-8827
Gene Plantz' IBBS in Chicago.
If you feel this is a useful program, send payment to:
Customized versions of the program are possible.
Guy Gallo
P.O. Box 344
Piermont, NY 10968
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