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From: richard@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Richard Artz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: More Help with LJIII
Message-ID: <5570495@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 30 Sep 90 04:39:06 GMT
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Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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Mike Forman writes:

>I've heard tell of a third party Postscript cartridge that allows
>both HP PCL and Postscript without turning the system off, but I've
>not been able to locate such a "puppy" at the local emporiums.
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We got a Pacific Page Postscript (PS) cartridge. It has an escape
that switches between PS and PCL. But the bad news is that it
causes a hard-reset on the printer whenever it switches. More
bad news, the reset takes about 60 seconds to selftest, and there
is no way to ask the printer which mode it's running. So either it's 
a reset between every job or a super-smart lp model. Worse news,
when I got a HP PS cartridge, the HP was 9 times faster running
PS than the Pacific Page cartridge!

Personally, I'm very disappointed that we can't have both. I assume
there's a damn good reason for this, but I don't know it. Sigh :-(

Richard Artz / OSSD Learning Products / 303-229-2036 / richard@hpfcww.fc.hp.com
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