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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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