HP4L Laser Printer and Emtex (fwd)

[Petr Sojka]

Dobry den,

tiskarny HP4 se stale casteji pouzivaji i pro vystupy
v TeXu, pro mnohe z Vas bude vhodne vedet, ze jsou
HP4 tiskarny fungujici a nefungujici (viz nize).
Ja jsem mel bohuzel zkusenost s tou nefungujici (vystup dvips
na HP4M).

Zdravi
Petr Sojka

Forwarded message:
: From: "Ralf Muehlen" <muehlen at rz.uni-sb.de>
: Subject: Re: HP4L Laser Printer and Emtex
: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 12:25:02 +0100 (MET)
: Cc: emtex-user at chemie.fu-berlin.de
:
: Mark Jeacocke asked:
: > I'm considering buying a new printer.  The printer I'm thinking of is
: > an HP4L Laser Printer.
: >
: > Is it easy to print out douments from emtex to this printer?
: >
: > Also, what should I use for figures?
: >
: > I've always used dvips and psfig to include postscript figures, but
: > this won't be a postscript laser printer.
:
: At least some of the bigger HP4 (HP4L, HP4, HP4M) have a bug in their
: floating point ROM. HP knows aboout this bug, but sells these buggy
: ROMs anyway. Dependending where you live, and how good you negotiate,
: your dealer or your local HP representation will give you a correct
: working ROM for free.
:
: The bug is rare seen, except when you use dvips or the like which use
: the floating point intensively.
:
: With ghostscript you can print PS files on (almost) every printer.
: For documents not containing PS graphics, you can print directly
: to your HP using EM's drivers.
: But you should avoid getting the buggy ROM nevertheless.
:
: If you (and others) want to test, if their printer contains the buggy ROM,
: I can sent you small detecting files. (Or look at comp.lang.postscript)
: (Maybe you should look in this newsgroup anyway, some people there are
: proposing to boycott HP until they stop selling buggy printers...)
:
: Ralf
:
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