We took advantage of the free color printer and purchased a JetDirect box to
connect the Xerox/Techtronix printer to the HP3000.  This printer replaced
an HP LJ 4500 printer that worked real nice with the HP3000.  The new
printer doesn't work so nice.  We use it as a dumb printer a lot of the time
(printing price lists and other fixed-font reports), so I have it defined in
NPCONFIG like this:

 304    (network_address =  10.251.46.106
         setup_file = lj4050n0.hpenv.sys
        )

The setup_file contains:

<esc>Z<esc>E
<esc>&l1H
<esc>&l2A
<esc>&l0O
>esc>(s0P
<esc>(s10H
<esc>&k10S
<esc>(s0B
<esc>(s4099T

which caused the HP LJ 4500 to print in portrait, regular (10 cpi) format.

The defaults for NPCONFIG are:

global (banner_header = FALSE
        banner_trailer = FALSE
        data_timeout = 30
        snmp_timeout = 5
        snmp_max_retries = 3
        message_interval = 15
        pjl_supported = FALSE
        jam_recovery = FALSE)

The problem is that this new printer takes 4-5 times as long to print a file
as the HP LJ 4500 did.  At first it wasn't too bad, but it has rapidly
become unbearable as we are now printing our monthly price lists (long and
several copies each).  What used to take an hour or so is now taking five
hours (so far).

Any ideas?

Jim Phillips                           Information Systems Manager
Email: [log in to unmask]     Therm-O-Link, Inc.
Phone: 330-527-2124                    P. O. Box 285
Fax:   330-527-2123                    10513 Freedom Street
Web:   http://www.tolwire.com          Garrettsville, OH  44231