I believe the problem you're encountering is that there is a difference
in the PCL languages supported on that these printers. The 4k has a
richer set of PCL (Level V or higher) that it understand than the 3D.
Therefore, the default fonts will be different than expected. You will
now have to specify a more detail font specification on your reports on
the 4K to achieve the same affects on the 3D.

With each new generation of HP printers, we've had to incorporate in our
programs the newer set of commands for our reports to look the same as
it did on the older printers. You can use NBSPOOL to provide some of the
commands for you or use an environment files.

George Willis
Fayez Sarofim & Co
[:}>


-----Original Message-----
From: JeffH [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, September 27, 1999 9:16 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: HP Laserprinters


Has anyone come across this problem?

We have several laser printers. 1 is an HP IIId and another is a
Laserjet
4000. Both are on the network via either a external jetdirect box or an
internal jet direct card. Both use the same environment file for
printing
from MPE/ix 6.x (listed below)

&/0s
&/1O
&/2E
&/15F
&/K4S

The problem: When printing the same file to each printer, I get a
different
font and line/character spacing at each printer. Checking the manuals,
they
should be printing exactly the same.

Anyone have any ideas?

TIA,

Jeff