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From: jpenny@ms.uky.edu (Jim Penny)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: dvidriver for laserjet II
Keywords: HP, laserjet II, DVIJEP, dvi2lj
Message-ID: <13276@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 20 Nov 89 00:36:03 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: U of Ky, Math. Sciences, Lexington KY
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Does anyone have a working device driver for a HP laserjet II?  I have
been trying to get DVIJEP and dvi2lj to work, both of which assume a
laserjet+ as target.  
	I have the follwoing problems:
1) the laserjet II will not recognize downloaded fonts from DVIJEP,
leading me to believe the font header format is wrong.  A dump of the
output files reveals no apparent error, altough a Brother manual on
hand (I know, I don't have the HP tech manual) implies that a 64 byte
header is mandatory whereas the header produced by DVIJEP is 26 or 29 
bytes long.

2) occasional motion commands are mis-interpreted and printed as character
strings.  Some motion commands work as expected, and I cannot predict
when one is acceptable.

3) if DVIJEP is told that the laserjet has no room for fonts in the HP
memory, it will produce almost correct output (DVIJEP will print
characters as bit-maps if the current font number excees MAXFONTSONPAGE).
Exceptions: The first charcter on the page is NOT printed correctly,
Some motion commnands are still ill-interpreted.

4) Dvi2lj does not download fonts either.  Examination of output shows
that the font header has similar format to that of DVIJEP.  Motion
commands appear never to be mis-interpreted.

In case it makes any difference, am using very rececnt DVIJEP form 
science.utah.edu, MSC 5.1, and MSDOS.

I would greatly appreciate any leads.  Especially welcome would be a diff
file to DVIJEP.
					Thanks in Advance
					Jim Penny
					jpenny@ukma.uky.edu

P.S.  if there is a better driver available, I would like to know that to.