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From: henry@ZOO.TORONTO.EDU (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re: HP LaserJet IIIsi
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Date: 31 Mar 91 07:18:56 GMT
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In article <9103281732.AA04905@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> woo@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Woo RAA) writes:
>1.  Will it automatically switch between PCL5 and Postscript,
>assuming you have the Postscript option?

Allegedly, yes.

>4.  How reliable is the double-sided option?  How is this specified
>in Postscript?

If it's anything like the situation on the IIID, the paper comes almost
all the way out of the back and is then sucked back in.  It ought to be
pretty reliable, kludge though it appears to be.  (Note that it appears
to be an *option*, not standard equipment, on the IIIsi.)

Undoubtedly they've just added one or two PostScript operators to invoke
it.  Any PostScript implementation has to come with documentation on its
implementation-specific operators.
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