ancient laserjets

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Wed Aug 15 14:47:19 2001

There's no problem, aside from the need for a bit of cleaning. particularly of
the pickup rollers. I just want to gather up the documentation before it all
disappears. There are things that this printer will do that my others, being
simpler, won't do. One, I hope, is print on both sides of the paper without my
intervention. This will save a lot of hassle whenever someone asks me for a
printed copy of something.

The printer in question has two trays, some sort of assembly on the back that's
absent from my other II's and III's and it has a couple of font cartridges, the
value of which is a mystery to me, since the printer fonts are downloadable
anyway, I hope.

I haven't used a II in about a decade, since I've had III's for over a decade
and recently got a few more (I couldn't pass 'em up at $4 each, since they had
fairly full toner cartridges. One of 'em even had a memory board just like the
one I bought for over $100 a decade or so ago.)

I'm interested in things like the available options, RAM expansion connector
pinout, etc. This printer has 2.5 MB of RAM, but my other II has only the half
MB that comes standard with 'em. I have TONS of DRAMs and, since the printer
just sends addresses and data (at least in the case of the III) to the memory
board, I figure I can either buy one for a few bucks or build one myself. Over
the years I've trimmed memory arrays off boards that were going into the trash,
so I have arrays of various physical sizes, ranging from 256Kx8 to 256Mx32.
It's possible that one or another of those will save me a lot of wiring.

I also have a JetLan board in an LJ3 that I might consider moving to the IID if
it will work there and use the thing as a standalone server as the III has been.
With its duplexing capabilities that would be useful, though I'm not convinced
the LJ-IID can use the JETLAN board. If not, I'll just attach it to the Netware
server.

Thanks for the info. I'll save your email address so I can contact you off-list
if I have a problem I can't figure out.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Blakeman" <rhblake_at_bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 12:08 PM
Subject: RE: ancient laserjets


> You have a Laserjet IID (33447A)printer, right?
>
> Is it a duplexer problem, paper pickup, etc problem? I don't have the normal
> manual but I have the consolidated one for all of the "classic" laserjets,
> except the IIIsi/4Si (they still print that, consolidated into one). I work
> HP printers all the time and much of the info is burned into my NVRAM on top
> of my shoulders, although sometimes the system clock is off a little and it
> takes a few minutes to extract the info (grin)
>
> The IID and IIID printers are big but run cheaply and easily.
> Here's what HP shows for the still avilable service manual (includes
> shipping):
>
> p/n 33459-90906...$83.00...33447A/33459A LaserJet IID/IIID Combined Service
> Manual
>
> Since I'm an HP ASP I can get a discount and could get it for you for $75
> rather than $83, even have it shipped from HP direct to you (or anyone else
> in the US)-agian that is for the printed/bound manual and shipping. There is
> no electronic version in existance that I know of and I too would love to
> have it if there was/were.
>
> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Richard Erlacher
> -> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 8:51 AM
> -> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> -> Subject: ancient laserjets
> ->
> ->
> -> I've always wanted a 2-sided-capable laser printer, preferably a
> -> Laserjet IIId
> -> or 4D, but, yesterday I ran onto a pretty thoroughly equipped
> -> LaserJet IID and
> -> couldn't resist. I find, however, that HP has no longer got the
> -> electronic
> -> versions of its user's manual, technical reference, or service
> -> manual on its web
> -> site.
> ->
> -> Doesn anybody have a pointer to these documents on the 'net?
> ->
> -> thanx,
> ->
> -> Dick
> ->
> ->
> ->
>
>
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