On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:28 AM, Kris Tilford wrote:

> On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:23 PM, PeterH wrote:
>
>> The 4/4M is an EX marking engine printer, perhaps the best marking
>> engine which Canon has produced.
>>
>> Sadly, the PostScript emulation is none too good, although it is a
>> lot better than Brother's.
>
> The 4M's Postscript ROM module was defective and subject to a recall
> by HP. I don't think this was widely known, and I've never seen the
> real replacement module, every one I've seen was the defective one.



Wow, my "defective" printer has been chugging out pages for years. :-)

There were two revisions of the PostScript ROM module, I've seen both,  
mine is the older, presumably defective one.

Apple's OS X 10.5 LJ4M driver breaks, I fixed it by getting the  
original OS X drivers from HP.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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