Jeff

I sympathize with your frustration. Even more annoying is the lack of
front panel support for configuring the multi-tray output option on the
new Laser Si's.

We always configure (in NMMGR) the lasers attached to our HP3000's to
have an printer type file associated.
In this file (created and maintained by ttutil) we embed the escape
sequences necessary to flip the laser into whatever default mode we
need.
This is especially important since more and more PC's are using the same
laserjet printers on the LAN, and we cant rely on a "fixed" setup.

If we temporarily need to override the HP3000 default setup for a
printer, we use other preconfigured ttutil files and attach them to the
spool files with the ;env= option on the file statement.

I sometimes think that about 60% of the message sent to a printer is
control information, and onlt 40% actual content. Bandwidth, Bandwidth,
Bandwidth :{

Neil

Neil Harvey
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>From:  Jeff Sullivan[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  25 October 1996 11:53
>To:    [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       The new LJ 5Si(with less features?)
>
>It makes me wonder why HP would manufacture their new line of
>printers with less features.  Case and point, starting with the
>HP Laserjet 2 or 3, they added the nice menu control panel to
>select many configuration and printing options, like the option
>to select landscape, and compressed print as the default.  If we
>were using these printers with pc software, it would not matter.
>But when these printers are attached to the HP3000, it is nice to
>be able to send reports without having to worry about imbedding
>escape sequences in the first record.  Thus the LaserJet 5Si.
>No more control over fonts from the Control Panel, this feature
>was elminated for some reason, I'm not quite sure.  Anyways,
>if anyone has any suggestions around this problem, short of the
>escape sequences, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Jeff Sullivan
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