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In <1990Oct4.025140.15232@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> trd10523@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Die Hard Cub Fan) writes:

>A friend of mine is currently using an IBM PS/2 Model 50 to run Word Perfect
>5.0 at her office.
>She does a lot of work with different fonts in the same document, and WP
>downlines them to an HP Laserjet II. The fonts are created with Bitstream
>Charter software.
>The problem is this: the printer often loses track of where the fonts are
>located in it's memory (I think) and it reverts to normal-looking text,
>ignoring WP's font commands.

More information would be useful; but in the absence of that, I will
assume that you are referring to an Error 20 message from the HP - which
says that it is out of memory. 

I have a Z-386 and a PS/2 Med 50 running the exact same copies of WP
5.1. The IBM has the same problem and the Zenith does not. THe only
conclusion I have been able to reach is that there is a problem with the
PS/2 parallel port communications. My "cure" is a work-around. I have
decreased the amount of fonts which are downloaded prior to document
printing. I now only load 2-3 fonts as the printer initialization, and
the problem is much reduced - it seems to only appear after about 20 or
so pages of text are printed now.

Hope this helps - if not, post more explicit details.

Chad Price
price@fergvax.unl.edu