furuta@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Richard Furuta) (11/12/87)
For various reasons, the list has gotten kind of backed up in terms of submissions. I've collected together some of the outstanding "give me information" kind of requests and am sending them out as a jumbo message below. It's not in the "official" digest format. Sorry to anyone who is bothered by this. We have been having poor net connectivity in the past few weeks but I hope this is resolving itself adequately now. --Rick ------------------------- >From: Doug Snow <dsnow%watdcsu.waterloo.edu@RELAY.CS.NET> >Date: 8 Oct 87 22:23:57 GMT Subject: Making Changes to setsccbatch persistent on LW+ Organization: Arts Computing Office, University of Waterloo. I need some help with a LaserWriterPlus. I'm running the following program in order to allow an 8-bit data path ( ie. no parity, not ignore! ) However, this Just does not remain persistent. ( At least, the header page does not indicate this -- ie. Graph bars should be white ). Can anyone help. A similar program to set the machines name works fine [ replace the line 25 9600 4 setsccbatch with ( some_name ) setprintername ]. If I do this in interactive mode ( under executive ) and then do a 25 sccbatch, and pop the stack twice ( ie ==, == ) I get what I want ( the 4 for parity ), but if I power down and power up, its gone. Another laserWriter we have runs at 19200bps so at least the baud rate can be changed! ( I didn't do this though ). Help, I'm missing a step somewhere. %!PS-Adobe-1.0 0 serverdict begin exitserver statusdict begin 25 9600 4 setsccbatch end ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Doug Snow, Arts Computing Office, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario. dsnow@watdcsu.waterloo.EDU ...!watmath!watdcsu!dsnow dougsnow@watdcs.NETNORTH doug@artspcs.watstar.waterloo.EDU ------------------------- >From: ba@pbhya.UUCP (Behzad Alavi) >Date: 12 Oct 87 22:51:03 GMT Subject: Digital News; September 7, 1987 Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA In an earlier article, someone had mentioned the Digital News article about comparing Laser Printers. I have not been able to find this magazine, let alone the particular issue. I will certainly appreciate if someone would give me some leads as to where to locate a copy of this Dig. News. Thanks, ptsfa!pbhya!ba ------------------------- >From: azeez@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (omar) >Date: 15 Oct 87 03:49:21 GMT Subject: psdit crashes on changed fonts Keywords: psdit ditroff transcript Organization: Theory Center, Cornell U., Ithaca NY I have been trying to typset some troff files using ditroff with Helvetica. We have psdit's transcript set up for an apple Laserwriter( 1985 version ). I can typset these file without any problem using the default fonts R,I,B. However, psdit crashes when I change these fonts to there respective Helvetica fonts with these line at the begining of the files: .fp 1 H .fp 2 HO .fp 3 HB The error message is: psdit: can't open map file /usr/lib/font/devpsc/HO.map This last prob;em occurs for sizeable files >= 8 pages, and did not occur for smaller files. Any clues ?????? Azeez Al-Omar azeez@mvax.ee.cornell.edu @tcgould.tn.cornell.edu ------------------------- >From: amdcad!dgcad!rjjt@decwrl.dec.com (Richard James Tobias) >Date: 16 Oct 87 16:05:21 GMT Subject: BACKSPACING in graphic mode on EPSON FX-80 or compatibles. Keywords: backspace, graphic mode, epson fx-80 Organization: Data General Corp. Sunnyvale, CA. Hello : I wish to backspace in graphic mode on epson fx-80. Any ideas would be appreciated. Marty ------------------------- >From: ecsvax.uucp!kbrown@mcnc.org (J. Keith Brown) >Date: 19 Oct 87 20:16:16 GMT Subject: Microsoft Word, IBM, and DEC LN03 Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service I recently purchased Microsoft Word, Version 3.1, to run on an IBM PC. In going through the documentation I see where it now supports the DEC LN03, which I have in my office. My question is has anyone run the LN03 off of an IBM. I have not had any success in doing this and would like the advice of anyone who has. Keith Brown NC School of Science and Math Durham, NC ------------------------- >Date: Mon, 19 Oct 87 17:40:37 PDT >From: MikeDixon.pa@XEROX.COM Subject: metafont parameters for xerox printers? i'd like to generate CM fonts tuned for Xerox write-white print engines; can anyone suggest appropriate values for blacker, fillin, and o_correction? thanks. .mike. ------------------------- >From: apollo@ecf.toronto.edu (Vince Pugliese) >Date: 21 Oct 87 14:46:37 GMT Subject: special papers for laser-printers Keywords: decal film Organization: Engineering Computing Facility, University of Toronto I was wondering if anyone knew of a decal film that could be put through a laser printer. A friend of mine who happens to be vacationing in India right now mentioned that he knew of a decal film that could be put through a photocopier and I would presume a laser printer. If anyone know of such a product please e-mail the info to me or post to either this net or rec.railroad as there are a number of modelers who would like to try this technique out. Vince Pugliese apollo@ecf.toronto.edu ------------------------- >From: mcvax!oce.nl!teus@uunet.UU.NET (Teus Hagen) >Date: 22 Oct 87 16:36:39 GMT Subject: test PostScript Organization: Oce-Nederland bv, Venlo, the Netherlands If you want to choose between the different PostScript printers one item to be tested is the compatability with Adobe implementations, robustness, performance (complexity of PostScript programs), etc. Does anyone has a collection (besides the cookbook examples) available? Does anyone collected the problems with some PS programs from the net? What I want is names and a description of their tests. Anyone? Thanks, teus hagen. -- _______________________________ This note does not necessarily represent the position of Oce-Nederland b.v.. Therefore no liability or responsibility for whatever will be accepted. ------------------------- >From: murray@topaz.rutgers.edu (CCIS Newark) >Date: 23 Oct 87 01:15:57 GMT Subject: need advice on self-service laser postscript 15+ ppm Keywords: postscript, laser, 15+ ppm, sel-service Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. WeWe need a postscript laser that is at least 15+ ppm that can be left in a user area. Since we are short on staff(i, isn't everyone, we need aa machine which tends to be easy to u and has easy access paper paper tray. I hope our user population could get their own output rather then have one of us run and constantoutput. Lastly, does anyone have any experience with a XEROX 2700 with a QMS postscript head. I know the 2700 is not an answer to the above question but is part of a different problem. ------------------------- >From: galaxy!marco@andromeda.rutgers.edu (the wharf rat) >Date: 23 Oct 87 23:24:35 GMT Subject: Xerox 3700 Printers && UNIX Keywords: dx2700,post-processors&&troff(1) Organization: Franklin's Tower Due to the idiocy of the person who had my job previously, I am attempting to drive Xerox printers (3700 && 40405) with 3B*'s. He also stuck me with a post-processor called "dx2700", put out by VLs inc. Now, leaving aside the somewhat assinine choice of the Xerox 3700 as the printer for a 3B2, the filter, this dx2700 thing, doesn't handle pic(1) very well at all (a polite understatement), and barfs on other typical typesetting applications. (by barf, I mean "memory fault" or infinite loops). The questions I need help with are: A. Can someone suggest a troff-to-Xerox filter that *works* ? Calls to the people who built this thing result in either "Yeah, it's a known bug, && we're working on it" or "Can't happen, you must be doing something wrong" I want to throw it away. B. We've leased this printer for 3 years :-( I want to get something sensible, like an Imagen or some Postscript printer. Anyone have any experience with terminating these kind of leases early, but gracefully? (If it was an apartment, I'd have loud parties and buy a big smelly dog that hated the landlord...) wharf rat rutgers!andromeda!marco ihnp4!homxc!ldm ------------------------- >Date: Mon, 26 Oct 87 16:03:53 -0500 >From: Fred Baube <fbaube@note.nsf.gov> Subject: Help with Lotus + Canon LBP-8 We have Canon LBP-8's, models A1 and A2. We can print text okay >from Lotus by using the Diablo mode built into both, but we cannot print Lotus graphics. Can anyone help out with a Lotus driver ? We are running Lotus version 2. Thanx in advance. ------------------------- That's all!
ane@hal.UUCP (Aydin "Bif" Edguer) (11/19/87)
Some recent surveys of laser printers
Digital Review November 10, 1986 p 71-79
List of DEC-compatible xerographic printers
Digital News June 22, 1987 p 33-41
List of laser and ion-deposition printers (faster than 12 ppm)
PC Week July 21, 1987 p 63+
List of laser printers
Digital News September 7, 1987 p 49-61
List of laser printers (12 ppm or less)
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