ancient LaserJet's

From: McFadden, Mike <mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu>
Date: Wed Aug 22 10:21:46 2001

Richard Erlacher was inquiring about ancient LaserJet IID's.

Here is some info stored in my overloaded brain, maybe slightly garbled.

In duplex mode the HP LaserJet IID printed the paper on one side then
ejected the paper out the rear and then reinserted the paper to print the
other side. It was kind of a triangular contraption that held the paper on
the way out and then allowed it to be pulled back in.

>From about 1988-1995 we didn't use MSWindows, only DOS. Ours were connected
via parallel interfaces and downloading fonts took memory and time, the font
cartridges offered the chance to have "standard" fonts already installed.
The other problem was that occasionally somebody would send/download non HP
fonts to the printer and then garbage would print for 20-50 pages. It was
also difficult to track whose fonts were in the printer at any one time. We
always reset between jobs.
We also didn't install lots of printer memory.

We later got a HP 2000 printer but we had nothing but problems,

There were barcode fonts, graphic fonts, foreign languages, and line drawing
fonts.

I personally owned a IID and was given another but I donated them to the
local not-for-profit computer surplus.

Mike
mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 10:21:46 BST

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