we also have one of the Xerox 850dp free color printers.  I installed it 2
months ago.

I used the normal internal nic that came with the printer (did not buy a
jetdirect card or external box) and connected it just fine to the network
and the HP3000 using npconfig.  I have it setup to print normal landscape
and portrait, compressed landscape and portrait.

After spending a week with Xerox tech support, I found (or was told) that
the printer was designed as a postscript printer, not a PCL based printer.
It has limited PCL capabilities, and when printing in PCL mode from the
HP3000, it drops from 14ppm to 2ppm (plain text mode).  Xerox says that is
normal PCL print speed for this printer.

Curt Brimacomb
Systems Manager
Idaho Computer Services, LLC
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-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
Behalf Of Wirt Atmar
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2001 8:22 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Network Printing Blues


Jim,

> 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:

[snip]

>  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?