HP laser printers

[Caballero Carlo.Caballero@xxxxxxxx]

Thank you again, Robert, for your work on XySearch, a great addition to
this community since I last participated in 1999. The archives are really
an extraordinary font of information. Looking through them, I was struck
that there is probably better support for our superannuated software than
for most current products. A delicious irony--and testimony to a lot of
thought and time on the part of the participants.

A string of messages scattered across 2002 touched on PCL (Hewlett
Packard's printer language) and newer printers, and the general comments
lead me to believe that I can print with XyWrite from DOS to a new HP
LaserJet using the LJ 4 PRN drivers. Tim Baehr wrote that XyWrite works
fine with PCL 3 and up (HP is currently at PCL 6, it seems). I understand
that the LJ 4 drivers will give me 600 dpi, not 1200.

My old Toshiba PageLaser 6 (emulating the LaserJet II) has given up the
ghost after 12 years. I'm looking at the HP LaserJet 1300, which of
course costs a fraction of what a second-line laser printer cost me in
1991.

After reading the messages from last year on printer topics, I feel
reassured, but reassurance is necessary, since so far as HP's own
pamphlets on their products are concerned, nothing earlier than Windows 95
even exists. (DOS? What's that?) I like the idea of undocumented
compatibility, but I wouldn't mind hearing about recent experiences with
XyWrite and HP printers.

Cheers,
Carlo

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Carlo Caballero
Asst. Prof. of Music
College of Music, Campus Box 301
The University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309

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