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- From: dneufeld@student.business.uwo.ca (Derrick J. Neufeld)
- Subject: Re: win-os2 (2.1 beta) printing problems ...
- Organization: University of Western Ontario
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:48:08 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan21.231204.8699@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- jhrv@tao.cpe.uchicago.edu (John Kim) writes:
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- > In article <1993Jan21.213728.5650@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.e
- > >
- > >It sounds like the LaserJet III bug in Win-OS/2 beta. Do not use the
- > >LJ III driver -- back off and use the LJ IIP driver.
- >
- > Let me elaborate a bit. The driver for PCL5 printers comes in a
- > separate file from the other PCL printers, and it seems to be broken.
- > None of the printers covered by this driver file will work correctly
- > with winos2 in os/2 2.1 beta. This includes the HP LJIII, IIIP, IIID,
- > and IIISi. Note the postscript modes of these printers (if you have a
- > postscript cartridge or simm) and the LJIV work ok, since the
- > postscript mode uses a different driver and the LJIV uses its own
- > driver (available from HP or from windows ftp sites).
- >
- > The LJIIP is the closest to PCL5 among the PCL4 printers, so that's
- > why it's recommended. You won't get scalable fonts and some other
- > fonts/features, but you'll get most (all?) of the data compression
- > built into PCL5, which makes for faster printing.
- >
- > John
-
- I installed the PCL5 drivers from MS-Win3.1, and they seem to work just dandy
- -- all features appear to work fine - is there any advantage of going with the
- LJIIP over the MS-Win3.1 PCL5 driver?
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