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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 14:01:00 EST
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- From: Michael Davis <75046.1627@COMPUSERVE.COM>
- Subject: Re: HPGL and HP LJ IIIP
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- CONTENT: Re: HPGL driver for Release 6.04 and HP LJ IIIP
- SUMMARY: The things SI Tech Support didn't tell you
- REL/PLTF: 6.04/MS-DOS
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- Jim Goes <goes@chimera.sph.umn.edu> asked if anyone had gotten a
- SAS HPGL driver to work successfully with the HP LJ IIIP.
-
- I haven't worked this issue recently but the following information
- may help Jim and my other SAS-L colleagues:
-
- 1. The HP LJ IIIP cannot be set to HPGL via the front panel
- operator codes. The switch has to be made by software.
-
- 2. Call HP Tech Support at (206) 323-2551. At the end of an
- appropriate conversation, the friendly person at the other
- end of the line will send you a disk containing a short
- program that switches the HP LJ IIIP between HPGL and PCL5
- for free. The program is part of a demo disk for a
- non-HP commercial software product.
-
- 3. You can not cheat on memory in printerland. If you want to
- print a full page of HPGL graphics, you will need to invest
- $$$ in a memory board for your HP IIIP to take it past 1 MB.
-
- Pacific Data Products makes good boards. If you are suffering
- from the disease "Fundazlo" (funds are low), a 2 MB Elite brand
- memory board, upgradable to 4 MB, is available from the Publisher's
- Toolbox in Middletown, WI (800-233-3898) for the low side of $100.
-
- 4. I vaguely remember something about having to set page protect
- on your printer. Ask the HP folks about this when you call.
-
- 5. The HP LJ IIIP supports an emulation of HPGL called HPGL/2.
- My recollection is that HPGL/2 is compatible with the HP 7470
- HP 7475 drivers but not the HP 7550 drivers. Nor does this
- driver emulate multiple pens for obvious reasons.
-
- 6. Don't have a HP III or HP IIIP driver but want to print in
- HPGL? Pacific Data Products makes a product called
- "Plotter in a Cartridge" which brings this capability to
- earlier model HP LaserJet printers.
-
- Summary: The HPGL drivers will print much faster but the
- appearance of graphics created by the PCL drivers is often
- better.
-