HP4L Laser Printer and Emtex (fwd)

[Zdenek Wagner]

On Fri, 11 Feb 1994 12:12:23 +0100 (MET) Petr Sojka said:
>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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>

Ja mam zkusenosti zcela opacne. Pouzival jsem GhostScript 2.5 na sve 286
z DOSu. Verze 2.6 mi vubec nefungovala na tiskarne, verze 2.61 se z nepocho-
pitelnych duvodu neprijemne casto hroutila v necekanych okamzicich. Verze
2.5 posle skoro vse na obrazovku dobre a pomerne mnoho souboru umi i
vytisknout, ale nikdy se nemohu spolehnout na to, ze vystup z dvips mi
GhostScript zpracuje. Naproti tomu moje HP 4M, kterou jsem koupil zacatkem
ledna u firmy ATAX, funguje zcela bez problemu a dosud jsem nenarazil
na zadnou chybu.

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