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From: dragon@trwspf.TRW.COM (Roger Vossler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Need help using HP Laserjet II with AMIGA
Message-ID: <407@trwspf.TRW.COM>
Date: Thu, 10-Sep-87 00:55:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: trwspf.407
Posted: Thu Sep 10 00:55:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 12-Sep-87 09:57:18 EDT
References: <320@intvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dragon@trwspf.UUCP (Roger Vossler)
Organization: TRW - Data Systems Lab., Redondo Beach, CA
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Keywords: Laserjet print cable

In article <320@intvax.UUCP> miller@intvax.UUCP (Dave Miller) writes:
*I recently purchased an HP Laserjet II for my AMIGA 1000 and interfaced
*it through the parallel port using the same printer cable that I have
*been using with my Epson JX-80 and Silvereed daisy-wheel printer.
*I have not been able to get anything out on the printer except for the
*test pattern which comes out off-line and not from the AMIGA.  I have

I have a HP LaserJet Plus attached to my Amiga 1000 via a Belkin
Components (Hawthorne, CA on Rosecrans Ave) cable which appears to
be a standard parallel printer port interface cable (i.e. it appeared
to be the same cable as the one I used to attach an Epson EX800
to the Amiga). HOWEVER, my LaserJet Plus has Option 300 installed, which
is a socalled Centronics parallel printer interface. I'm not familiar
with the new Series II LaserJets, but it sounds like HP makes a
distinction between a "parallel interface" and a "Centronics parallel
interface". HP tends to have lots of interface and cable combos. Hope
this helps. BTW: Once I got my interface-cable-dipswitch settings
worked out, the LaserJet works fine using Workbench 1.2, Preferences,
etc.
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