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From: schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Is HP PostScript known to hang mysteriously?
Message-ID: <36662@cup.portal.com>
Date: 7 Dec 90 23:50:08 GMT
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Reply from Don Lancaster (and I quote):


" There's nothing at all mysterious about the HP cartridge blowups. It 
 does it all the time, reliably like clockwork.

 Just feed it  too complicated a job or too many fonts, and away she goes.

 That's what error #24 is all about.

 By the way, the PROCESSING DATA message usually means the printer is
 out behind the barn playing with itself. Very informative.

 A specific way to blow up this cartridge appears as HPCARTXX.PS in PSRT.

 This cartridge also has a fatal copypage flaw in duplex mode, since
 copypage is NOT side sensitive, causing a 10:1 to 50:1 slowdown. Both
 HP and Adobe assert that this is an intentional feature.

 All of which is maddingly infuriating. But duplex printing is SO GREAT
 otherwise that you have to put up with all this male bovine excretia.

 See my cartridge review in GURU67.TXT on PSRT."

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						--mike