ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com (Ryan Waldron) (03/05/91)
Recently, I was given a laser printer (a LaserPro Silver Express) that claims to be fully HP LaserJet+ compatible. Now, knowing very little about such things, I have been hard-pressed to tell whether this claim is accurate. I was given the printer because the original owner was unable to make it work with a software package (Glyphix, I believe) which he had purchased to work with WordPerfect (PC version). The program essentially added a whole bunch of nice fonts to WordPerfect, converting them on-the-fly to something an HP LJ+ could understand and print nicely. The symptoms were that you could choose any of the available fonts at the top of the document, and it would print fine until you changed to an italic version, or decided to underline it, etc., after which point nothing else would be printed. If you used one of the two built-in fonts ( I don't have any cartridges for the printer ), you could underline, italicize, etc., with impunity, but the same symptoms would occur if you tried to change to a new font. So, I would like some advice on how to determine whether this printer is actually HP LJ+ compatible, and what I can look out for in trying to get things to print properly. I currently have the printer connected to an Amiga, but I can move it to any of a number of platforms if I have to in order to find out what I need to know. I have a utility (Khalid Aldoseri's LJP, for any Amiga owners reading) that is supposed to provide multiple font support, but it also exhibits some strange behavior, the oddest one being that the first line of any document is broken into two lines after the first character, and the rest of the page is fine. Whew! I know this is long, but I don't know a short way to describe the problem very well. Thanks for any help you can provide me! -- Ryan Waldron ||| ryan@aladdin.b11.ingr.com ||| ...!uunet!ingr!waldronr "You read me Shakespeare on the Rolling Thames, That Old River Poet that never, ever ends. Our Thumping hearts hold the Ravens in, And keep the tower from tumbling." -KB