Re: hp4000 printers

[Peter Samuel]

On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Robert Valliant wrote:

> 
> I just subscribed to this list. Naturally I have a problem.
> 
> @SysInclude { fig }
> @SysInclude { doc }
> 
> @Doc @Text @Begin
> @LP
> @CD @Heading clines @Break { School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies
> Alumni Questionnaire  }
> @LP
> Other Professional pursuits:
> @PP
> I am a pilot for Northwest Airlines in my spare time. Since we
> just negotiated a new contract, I can make $250,000 a year for just 1
> week's work. Too good to pass up. I am also a professional mountain
> climber in Asia. Thus far, I am scaled K-2 and am planning an assault
> on Everest, along with my colleagues, in the spring of 2000 ---
> to celebrate the millennium.
> @LP
> 
> @End @Text
> 
> Printing this vanilla file on an hp4000N printer results in a nicely
> printed page, but there is a second page with the word "undefine"
> printed 1 inch from the bottom and about 1.25 inches from the left
> margin. It must be 72 pt type. So not all of it fits.

Lout 3.12 generates completey resovled doc in one pass.

Ghostscript-5.50 handles the lout generated PostScript without error.

My HP 4000N printer prints the PostScript WITHOUT any second page or
"undefine".

My operating system is Solaris 2.5.1. I'm printing via the standard
Solaris printer system using HPs jetadmin filters. These filters
simply wrap in incoming PostScript in PJL start and end headers. They
do NO convert the PostScript to PCL.

Using ghostscript to convert the PostScript to PCL and printing it
also shows no problems. The printer's name is oak and hpnpf is part of
the HP jetadmin suite. hpnpf eventually gets called by the lp system
but using it as shown below bypasses the lp system completely.

    gs -sDEVICE=ljet4 -sOutputFile=test.pcl -dNOPAUSE -q test.ps -c quit
    /opt/hpnp/bin/hpnpf -x oak test.pcl

My guess is the problem is not directly related to lout. What
operating system are you using? What filters (if any) are in you
lp/lpr system? Are the filters different from the Apple Laserwriter
setup compared with the HP 4000N setup.

> 
> I tried sending ehandler.ps (from the adobe website) to the printer
> first, but it reports no error.
> 
> The file prints perfectly on an Apple LaserWriter 12/640.
> 
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards
Peter
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