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From: jja@etana.tut.fi (Ahola Jari)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript Cartridge for HPLJII
Message-ID: <10576@etana.tut.fi>
Date: 3 Jan 90 16:44:36 GMT
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From article <1991@cooper.cooper.EDU>, by hak@cooper.cooper.EDU (Jeff Hakner):
> I just received an ad for a Postscript plug-in cartridge for
> the Hp LaserJet II.  The company is TSA, and the price is $699.
> I would greatly appreciate answers to the following:
> 
> 1) Who else makes these boards, and at what prices?

Jan 90 Byte has an article of Pacific Data Products Pacific Page cartridge
which also turns your lj series II printer to a postscript compatible one.
It's priced at $695 but retails for $500 and below (check for instance the ads
in the same Byte).

They also have another interesting cartridge, which turns your lj to a 
HPGL plotter.

> 2) We already have a large number of troff users who rely on
>    the jetroff package, which uses standard PCL to print ditroff
>    on the HP.  How will we be able to use PCL, if at all?

Postscript mode can be changed back to PCL via programming and front panel
controls.

> 3) I assume PS will be much faster for just about everything.
>    Therefore, I'd like to use it with troff.  Where out there
>    are the troff->PS converters?

Pacific Page prints at the speed of one third of the Apple Laserwriter II.

> 4) The ad claims "100% PS compatability".  How true?
> 

Printed all they fed to it and correctly.


> Jeff Hakner
> Cooper Union Computer Center
> New York, NY

-jja

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