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Hi J....

I did sometime ago investigate the different low-end laserprinters as to find
the best combined HP LaserJet / PostScript solution. During that period I
discovered different remarks (mainly from Byte) about the PostScript cartridges
for the HP printer series, specifically the Pacific Page cartridge. These
remarks made it quite clear, that there is a difference between cartridges used
the HPII and the HPIII, in fact Pacific retails with three different
cartridges, one for the old series, one for the HPII and one for HPIII/HPIIP.
Hope this gives some clues as to what the problem might be....

Regards,

Michael

In article <9105021429.AA11953@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> jdonovan@GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU (John Donovan) writes:
>We have a HP LJIII with Postscript Cartridge; it works fine. However
>if we try to use the cartridge with an old HP LJII it does not seem
>to recognize it. If we print a postscript file, we just get a text copy
>of the postscript codes. The original purpose was to print from a
>Mac Classic to the HP LJII. Any ideas? Please respond to my e-mail
>address, since I'm not a newsgroup reader usually. Thank-you.
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The Postscript Cartridge for the LJII is different than the
cartridge for the LJIII.  The only explanation seems to be that
HP wanted to get a small headstart on the other cartridge makers
for the LJIII(read: Greed).  

The LJII looks for a key word on the cartridge to determine if 
it is a program (eg Postscript) or data (eg font).  HP changed the 
key word for LJIII.

So you have to buy two cartridges if you want to run Postscript on
both machines.  Adobe and Pacific Page have cartridges for the
LJII.  Adobe's is offical Adobe, while Pacific Data Products' is 
licensed from Phoenix (clone).  HP's cartridge is Adobe Postscript
and runs only on the LJIII. 

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<@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> Michael_Hallin.Xeroxvang@rxdk.xerox.com writes:
>for the HP printer series, specifically the Pacific Page cartridge. These
>remarks made it quite clear, that there is a difference between cartridges 
>the HPII and the HPIII, in fact Pacific retails with three different
>cartridges, one for the old series, one for the HPII and one for HPIII/HPIIP.

Besides different cartridge for 3 different machines, they also have 3
different major versions and products for the same thing.  there is the
old style cartridges in several minor versions, the new style cartridges
in 1 or 2 minor version, and then a similiar but different product which
is altogether different and is really a accelerator...
This make a otherwise confusing matter utterly mixed up.
al



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