manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark Andersen) (11/16/89)
I have a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II+ w/ 2.5 MB memory. From time to time, it condescends to print the Extended character set (i.e., the character set that includes a few Greek letters, some line-draw characters, top and bottom halves of an intergral sign, etc.). However, I have not been able to control this behavior. I would like my printer to print in the Extended character set when I want it to, rather than when it wants to; I like output from VTREE, for example, to have the linedraw characters, and I also like to get nice-looking printouts of worksheets from DERIVE. Can someone tell me how to make my printer print the Extended character set? TFM is no help (changing the character set on the control panel doesn't do it), and the PCLPak manual doesn't help either. Thanks in advance, Mark Andersen manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology UC Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92717
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (11/24/89)
manderse@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mark Andersen) writes: >I have a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet II+ w/ 2.5 MB memory. From time to time, >it condescends to print the Extended character set (i.e., the character >set that includes a few Greek letters, some line-draw characters, top and >bottom halves of an intergral sign, etc.). >Can someone tell me how to make my printer print the Extended character >set? TFM is no help (changing the character set on the control panel >doesn't do it), and the PCLPak manual doesn't help either. You have to use the control panel to select the proper *symbol set* AND select the proper *font* as the defaults. (PC8 symbol set and courier-10 font). Then you have to hope that none of your programs change this. For instance, the PC8 symbol set isn't available in many of the cartridge fonts. If you select one of those fonts, you no longer get the PC8 symbols. Finally, are you sure about that model? I know of a LaserJet, LaserJet Plus, and LaserJet II. I've never heard of a II Plus. If you don't have the LaserJet II you won't vbe able to select the symbol set as I suggest above. A quick way of checking: The LaserJet II has slots for two cartridges, the LaserJet and LaseJet Plus only have one. -- Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard CIS: [70465,203] "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -- Solomon Short