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From: regan@cs.Buffalo.EDU (Kenneth Regan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: HP LJ II, Postscript, PacPage -- Shared by Two Machines
Keywords: will it all work?
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Date: 1 Dec 89 15:02:29 GMT
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I have a specific "for Postscript, what to do?" query.  My setup is:

<80386 PC 1Mb>---parallel---<HP LJ II 2.5Mb>---?serial?---<Sun SparcI, tba.>

I would occasionally like to print in Postscript from either box [not at
the same time !-)], switching mode on the front panel as needed.  Since
a software emulator or add-in board* on one machine might not help the other,
I'm naturally looking at options specific to the printer.  I know that HP's
new PS cartridges won't work with the LJ II (why?).  So that takes me to

	(1) Pacific Page:  Would it work in the above situation?

	(2) A possible rub:  My DOS application downloads 16 or more
non-Adobe soft fonts.  The Nov. 28 PC Magazine review gave the impression
that Pac Page can only handle four.  Is this so?  (I haven't asked them yet.)

	(3) Is there another solution?  I thought I read that the LJ II
controller could be upgraded to that of the IID (or IIP), but the local
HP dealer says no.  *Could a PC board connected by video cable to the
LJII do the trick?

Over-arching question: is there anything I am missing with these plans?
Replies greatly appreciated, and I will gladly summarize e-mailed responses.


Kenneth W. Regan           			Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept.				(Opinions not < SUNYaB)
SUNY at Buffalo, 226 Bell Hall			Tel.: (716) 636-3189, -3180
Buffalo,  NY  14260				regan@cs.buffalo.edu