Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!hoss!chakra!price From: price@chakra.unl.edu (Chad Price) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Word Perfect 5.0 and HP Laserjet II Message-ID: Date: 6 Oct 90 16:51:25 GMT References: <1990Oct4.025140.15232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@hoss.unl.edu (Network News Administer) Organization: University of Nebraska, Computing Resource Center Lines: 28 In <1990Oct4.025140.15232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Die Hard Cub Fan) writes: >A friend of mine is currently using an IBM PS/2 Model 50 to run Word Perfect >5.0 at her office. >She does a lot of work with different fonts in the same document, and WP >downlines them to an HP Laserjet II. The fonts are created with Bitstream >Charter software. >The problem is this: the printer often loses track of where the fonts are >located in it's memory (I think) and it reverts to normal-looking text, >ignoring WP's font commands. More information would be useful; but in the absence of that, I will assume that you are referring to an Error 20 message from the HP - which says that it is out of memory. I have a Z-386 and a PS/2 Med 50 running the exact same copies of WP 5.1. The IBM has the same problem and the Zenith does not. THe only conclusion I have been able to reach is that there is a problem with the PS/2 parallel port communications. My "cure" is a work-around. I have decreased the amount of fonts which are downloaded prior to document printing. I now only load 2-3 fonts as the printer initialization, and the problem is much reduced - it seems to only appear after about 20 or so pages of text are printed now. Hope this helps - if not, post more explicit details. Chad Price price@fergvax.unl.edu