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katcher@sol.ral.rpi.edu (William Katcher) writes:

>I want to use Postscript on my HPLJ 3P, and I am looking into purchasing
>Pacific Data's Postcript emulation cartridge.  Does anybody on this net
>own or use this or a similar product?  I would like to know if this 
>will allow me to print ps and eps files as if I owned a true PS printer.
>Does it print at a reasonable speed and print quality, do I need additional
>memory, does it have any drawbacks that I should know about, is it worth
>the money, ...etc.  Can I easily print TeX files using dvips?

>Also of interest is Adobe's Postscript cartridge.  I would appreciate
>any other options which I may have overlooked.

>Thanks in advance.

i once worked in an environment of ibms connected to an hpljiii operating
in its native mode for an office of 6 other users. i told the boss to buy
this pacific data postscript cartridge (though i would have prefered a
printer whose native language was ps); he did and he found that his quattro
pro files printed a lot faster when conerted to ps first.

i also used TeX and converted dvi files to ps and downloaded them to the
hpljiii in ps mode and it did work. the only problem was that everybody
else worked the printer only in pcl mode and i always had to go around and
notify everyone of my intention to tie up the printer since it is not able
automatically to sense the format of the incoming document.