In message <[log in to unmask]> Bruce Toback writes:
> >About two years ago at UKs annual user group conference I saw an HP mid range
> >printer printing graphics. It used, I believe, the original PCL found in the
> >very first HP Laserjet. This meant the form and data had to be sent for each
> >page.
>
> Actually, no HP electrophotographic printer since the original LaserJet has
> had this version of PCL 4. HP's midrange printers use PCL 4 rather than PCL
> 5 because the latter is much larger and is generally not needed in a data
> processing environment. PCL 4 as implemented in every printer released
> since 1985 includes macro capabilities; PCL 4 printers include the LaserJet
> II/IIP/IID, LaserJet Plus, and LaserJet 2000. HP's midrange printers do NOT
> require that the form and data be sent for each page. (Well, the data has
> to be sent for each page -- though PCL 6 will include a feature called Text
> Prediction, requiring that only part of the data to be sent. The printer
> will figure out what the rest of the data should be.)
>
> -- Bruce
>
The point I'm trying to make is that HP DO make non laser printers that can
print graphics.
 
I worked on the first laserjet which was simply called LaserJet and was
released before the LaserJet+ (we used it in house for shipping notes,
invoices, etc from a 3000) and it didnt have the capabilities of the
LaserJet+, graphics inside macros, resolution  or something. Maybe Bruce
would clarify just what it could do versus the Laserjet+ which was the
first full featured laserjet.
 
Maybe when the dot matrix printer scrolled the paper up and down to produce
the form and then the data was put on. Which meant in order to keep the paper
moving in one direction, I would personally merge the form and data for each
page! But I really can't remember.
 
Finally. On a lighter note.
 
Dear Bruce,
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