mike%bellcore.com@MOUTON.ARPA (Michael Caplinger) (01/24/86)
The Imagen 12/300 (Ricoh engine) prints pages in the "correct" order; i.e., the first page into the printer comes out first. This is the opposite order from the way the 8/300 prints pages. My question is this -- is there any way to ask the printer to print the header page BEFORE the job rather than after? I've managed to hack the software to turn off pagereversal, but the header still comes out wrong. Actually, I'm less than impressed with the specific support for the 12/300 printer. The software was all generic 8/300 software (except for the fonts), the Makefiles didn't work, and this pagereversal problem has cropped up as well. If you don't have a fairly experienced Unix hacker around, you might want to stay away from this one for a while. We've also had a persistent problem with toner streaking in the engine. (If we didn't have these problems, we'd be pretty happy.) Mike Caplinger mike@bellcore.com ihnp4!bambi!mike
laser-lovers@ucbvax.UUCP (02/01/86)
To: ihnp4!decvax!ucbvax!washington.arpa!laser-lovers Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers Subject: Re: pagereversal on the Imagen 12/300 Summary: Expires: References: <mike.32@bellcore> Sender: Reply-To: krstan@ihlpm.UUCP (55542-Stanley,K.) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories (Indian Hill) Keywords: imagen I just got a 24/300 and my information from talking to their support org is that the header must always be printer last which means in is at the back of jobs frm the 24/300 and the 12/300 but at the front of the 8/300 since that print engine prints face up (first page last). I was told that it was planned (but not committed) to allow the header first in the next version of software. I presume that it could not have the page and character counts if you did not have page collation on. I have to say that I am impresed at the documentation that now comes with the rpinters. The manuals have improved dramatically since 1 year ago when I got an 8/300. Keith R. Stanley Room 4H-313 Bell Laboratories Naperville, Illinois 60566 (312)-979-3416 decvax!ihnp4!ihlpm!krstan @ Berkeley