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Subject: Re: LaserJet as Printer Replacement
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Date: Sun, 12-May-85 03:39:02 EDT
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From: ihnp4!utzoo!henry@uw-beaver.arpa

> We are trying to use the HP LaserJet as a printer-replacement
> (quiet and excellant quality).  But it appears that this can't
> be done simply by unplugging the impact printer and plugging in
> the LaserJet.  If for no other reason that it only allows
> printing on 60 lines rather than 66 ...  and those spacing
> line-feeds that most spoolers supply and nroff always adds count
> as lines.  Thus we are faced with writing a mid processor that
> handles (eats) the spacing lines or changing all our nroff stuff
> to know about 66 and 60 lines ...  some thing we don't really
> want to do.
> 
> Does anyone have any other approaches that we havn't seen?  tia.

Simply send the LaserJet the proper initialization sequences, and
there should be no problem.  You'll need to get those sequences
out to it somehow, either by hacking the spoolers and the nroff
terminal table or by running an initialization program at some
suitable time.  The LaserJet's default parameter settings are not
very useful.

The LaserJet is perfectly willing to pretend to be a 66-line printer,
although the top line or two is going to be blank whether you wanted
it that way or not.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
				{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry