So what you're really saying here is use PCL6? :) 'cuz I really don't HAVE to be using PS, but for some reason we do... considering this printer is in a Windows/Mac lab, I could get away with throwing mostly PCL at it...
I'm getting really tired of HP lately... they have these oddball problems, like the 4100 with the counting problems and the 8150 with this problem... and they don't exactly give you a way out... what other workgroup printer is there besides the 4100 that HP makes? None really. And there really is no other 8150 clone of their either... ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 732/235.4170 (5-4170) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - Robert Wood Johnson MS - S-B11 On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jim Easton wrote: > > I'm having a big problem with my HP LaserJet 8150 (excuse me if I asked > > about this already, but I'm going senile a touch early and don't see it in > > my sent-mail, so here goes...). The thing lately is printing way way > > slow... like a large delay, maybe 15 seconds, between print jobs. My 4100 > > next to it can print about 15 times faster, with no delays. It seems > > especially poor with certain websites. > > Yeah we have a couple of those printers and they exhibit > the same problem - amongst others. > > I phoned HP one time (and actually got to talk to someone who > knows something) about a bug in the postscript interpreter. > (having to do with setting fonts) The problem is that in those > printers the postscript interpreter is an HP emulation of > postscript III - or at least that's what he told me. (Ie. they > didn't install the Adobe chip). I said to him "Oh that > explains it". He asked what I meant by that and I told him, > "well everybody knows that although HP makes superb hardware > for some reason they can't write decent software to save their > souls". > > What I think is happening is that the the memory is being > fragmented and as a result it goes slower and slower. So far > the only solution I know is to reboot the printer. What a > bummer!!! > > What *I* would like to know is "is there a sequence I can send it > that would cause it to reset" - equivalent to a reboot - that > way we could get the driver to do it every once in a while and > avoid this nasty. > > Trying to get anything from HP is like talking to a stone. > Anyone else?? > > Jim > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
