Re: HP LaserJet 5L on IIgs?

[spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article pfaiffer@MBnet.MB.CA (Mike Pfaiffer) writes...
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>spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) writes:
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>>	Is it possible to connect a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 5L 
>>printer to an Apple IIgs? My brother just purchased one for his PC 
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>	I use an HP IIIp with no problem. All I can suggest is try it and 
>let us know how it works. Ask if you can borrow the printer for an hour 
>or so and try it with some GSOS stuff (it will work with simple P8 text 
>as will any parallel printer).

	I did, it worked somewhat. The results were somewhat strange,
sometimes nothing would happen, other times a very small image would
appear on paper, no larger than a thumb-nail (perhaps because of the
older driver, or lack of extra memory in the GS I tested it with?).
Note I only tried it under GS/OS with the Harmonie printer drivers.

	Eventually I managed to get a semi-decent bitmapped SHR
graphic to print (4-bit greyscale images come out best). However
the image looks a bit blocky, rather like PC-MCGA pixels if put
onto paper. I suppose this is normal, considering it is a bit-
mapped image and only a 320 x 200 resolution. Using the LaserJet 5L 
with Pointless didn't quite work though, it would either ignore
the TrueType font used on screen replacing it with a built-in 
printer font, or print a chunky version of the TT font. Would
EGO's Laserbeam help here, or is that only for PostScript 
printers?

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Mitchell Spector
spector@vax2.concordia.ca