dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (Dave Osborne) (10/28/87)
There was a (now expired) posting recently from someone searching for a LaserJet II driver... if they'd care to mail me, or repost the article, I'll be glad to help. dave. -- David Osborne +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK | | JANET: dao@uk.ac.nott.cs || cczdao@uk.ac.nott.vaxa | | UUCP: {...!mcvax}!ukc!nott-cs!dao | | ARPA: dao%cs.nott.ac.uk@ucl-cs.arpa || @ucl-cs.arpa:dao@cs.nott.cs.uk | | Phone: +44 602 506101 x2064 Voice: "Dave!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+
jpenny@ms.uky.edu (Jim Penny) (11/20/89)
Does anyone have a working device driver for a HP laserjet II? I have been trying to get DVIJEP and dvi2lj to work, both of which assume a laserjet+ as target. I have the follwoing problems: 1) the laserjet II will not recognize downloaded fonts from DVIJEP, leading me to believe the font header format is wrong. A dump of the output files reveals no apparent error, altough a Brother manual on hand (I know, I don't have the HP tech manual) implies that a 64 byte header is mandatory whereas the header produced by DVIJEP is 26 or 29 bytes long. 2) occasional motion commands are mis-interpreted and printed as character strings. Some motion commands work as expected, and I cannot predict when one is acceptable. 3) if DVIJEP is told that the laserjet has no room for fonts in the HP memory, it will produce almost correct output (DVIJEP will print characters as bit-maps if the current font number excees MAXFONTSONPAGE). Exceptions: The first charcter on the page is NOT printed correctly, Some motion commnands are still ill-interpreted. 4) Dvi2lj does not download fonts either. Examination of output shows that the font header has similar format to that of DVIJEP. Motion commands appear never to be mis-interpreted. In case it makes any difference, am using very rececnt DVIJEP form science.utah.edu, MSC 5.1, and MSDOS. I would greatly appreciate any leads. Especially welcome would be a diff file to DVIJEP. Thanks in Advance Jim Penny jpenny@ukma.uky.edu P.S. if there is a better driver available, I would like to know that to.