gihill@thunder.lakeheadu.ca (02/23/90)
We are having problems producing hard-copy plots on our HP Laserjet series
II. The plots are produced by a statistical package called "S-plus". Our
hardware/software config. is as follows:
------------- -------------
| SUN 3-160 |=====ethernet========| SUN 3-180 |
| v4.0.3 | | v3.5 |
------------- -------------
ALM2 ALM1
| |
| |
------------- ------------------
| X-term | | HP Laserjet II |
| running | ------------------
| S-plus |
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We can generate these nice 2-d and 3-d plots on the X-terminal but when
trying to print them on the HP we get a partial plot or nothing at all.
For example, it seems to plot the labels for x-y axis (which are just
acsii characters), but won't plot the axis itself. Also, sometimes the
Laserjet curser postitioning commands come are printed on the graph. e.g.
'*p1154x581y'. I have dumped the plot file and it seems to be OK.
No error codes are displayed on the HP status window. The Laserjet is
connected to a synchronous port on the 3-180 and we have had *no* problems
printing regular text files on it. I have checked with the S-plus vendor
and they can't see anything wrong with our setup.
I am wondering whether our printcap entry is wrong. Ours is:
hp|Hewlett Packard:\
:lp=/dev/tty0d:\
:sd=/usr/spool/hp:\
:xc#400:\
:fc#0177777:\
:fs#040:\
:xs#40:\
:br#9600:\
:pw#80:\
:pl#60:\
:if=/usr/lib/hpf
Can Laserjet II users send me theirs for comparison ? Any other ideas?
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