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Article #4195Re: Is HP PostScript known to hang mysteriously?
From: Michael Alan Schuster
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 23:50
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 1990 23:50
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Reply from Don Lancaster (and I quote): " There's nothing at all mysterious about the HP cartridge blowups. It does it all the time, reliably like clockwork. Just feed it too complicated a job or too many fonts, and away she goes. That's what error #24 is all about. By the way, the PROCESSING DATA message usually means the printer is out behind the barn playing with itself. Very informative. A specific way to blow up this cartridge appears as HPCARTXX.PS in PSRT. This cartridge also has a fatal copypage flaw in duplex mode, since copypage is NOT side sensitive, causing a 10:1 to 50:1 slowdown. Both HP and Adobe assert that this is an intentional feature. All of which is maddingly infuriating. But duplex printing is SO GREAT otherwise that you have to put up with all this male bovine excretia. See my cartridge review in GURU67.TXT on PSRT." -------------------- --mike
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!schuster From: schuster@cup.portal.com (Michael Alan Schuster) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Is HP PostScript known to hang mysteriously? Message-ID: <36662@cup.portal.com> Date: 7 Dec 90 23:50:08 GMT References: <1019@quiddity.queensu.CA> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 27