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From: jules@zen.UUCP (Julian Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.periphs,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Review: HP LaserJet Series II
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Date: Fri, 6-Mar-87 04:37:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  6 04:37:23 1987
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Reply-To: jules@zen.co.uk (Julian Perry)
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I too saw the  LaserJet  II before  official  release and asked HP a few
questions  about it.  I was also  impressed;  however,  I was also  very
disappointed that what we found to be the most annoying  features of the
LaserJet(+) had NOT been sorted out.

  1.  We use lots of soft fonts because it's not possible to get what we
      want on a  cartridge,  so we download the fonts and then print out
      documents,  letters  etc.  This  is all  performed  by our  HP9040
      multi-user  mini  through a spool  queue.  Now comes the  annoying
      bit......IT  IS NOT POSSIBLE TO FIND OUT WHICH FONTS ARE CURRENTLY
      IN THE LASERJET MEMORY!  This means that for each document we have
      to  download  everything  that it uses as we  don't  know  what is
      already in  memory.  We could  keep track of what has been sent to
      the LaserJet  but if it gets  switched  off the  computer  doesn't
      know.

  2.  The only interfaces are RS232 and Parallel, HP-IB (IEEE 488) would
      have been very nice  (especially from HP who have an HP-IB version
      of  everything)  so that we can download  graphics  and fonts in a
      reasonable time.

  3.  EPROMable font cartridges - PLEASE ?

Having  said all that, the whole  LaserJet  series  (and now the ScanJet
too) are truly wonderful, ours never stop printing.

Jules

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