kcorbett@mipos3.UUCP (Kevin Corbett) (05/12/87)
I need information about a Canon LBP-8A2 laser-printer. It is similar
to the LaserJet but it doesn't seem to work with the same drivers. I
am most interested in desk-top publishing software to run on an
IBM-PC or compatible that supports this model of laser-printer. Please
help or I must pass up a bargain.
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Thanks,
kcorbett@mipos3.intel.com
...{hplabs,decwrl,oliveb}!intelca!mipos3!kcorbettBeebe@SCIENCE.UTAH.EDU ("Nelson H.F. Beebe") (05/14/87)
I would be rather leary of the Canon LBP-8A2; it was being offered for $2995 (quantity one) from a local business products firm in Salt Lake City. I had one for 3 months and attempted to develop a TeX DVI driver for it. After many long and frustrating trials, I conclude that the downloaded font support simply does not work correctly. I can document this in rather great detail (described in a 9-page letter I wrote to Canon headquarters) to anyone who is interested. It IS possible to get TeX output if you send each character as a raster bitmap, instead of as a downloaded font character, but this blows up the output file size by a factor of 10 to 15, and slows the output speed to one page every 2 to 5 minutes. It regularly had problems with buffer overrun with certain types of files, despite my using X-on/X-off flow control with it. For Diablo text mode and vector graphics, it works satisfactorily, and even has some cute features like inverse video printing. If you are already stuck with one, the TeX DVI driver for it is available as part of my public-domain TeX DVI driver family. -------