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HP LaserJet Series II And III - Print Line Dr |
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WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: The user has both the HP LaserJet Series II, and the HP LaserJet III. Using line draw with the shaded line characters. (ctrl f3, 2, 4, 1 2 or 3) the HP LaserJet Series II prints in a light shade of gray. The HP LaserJet III prints noticeably darker, the dot characters are different and isn't a light gray, the same as the Series II. HP told the user that A) the III is far more advanced than the II, B) the HP is reading the WordPerfect characters, C) the characters are no longer compatible, D) no way to fix the "problem" on HP's end. Solutions: This is not a "problem" in WP, the reason is that the line draw characters are both selecting the decimal 176. We send exactly the same codes with both drivers, if you use the HP LaserJet Series II driver on the HP LaserJet III there is still the problem. Basically HP is correct, the characters have been changed internally in the printer, and there is nothing we can do to change that. Basically, between the HP LaserJet Series II, the HP LaserJet IID, and the LaserJet IIP, HP changed the appearance of more than 30 internal characters. Some of them are not even the same character any longer. An example is the PC-8 character 252, which on the Series II is a greek eta character, but on the IIP is a power of n character. Another character is PC-8 character 127. On the Series II it is a small checkerboard character, but on the IIP it is a small house or home plate character. This doesn't include the shade characters which the customer was complaining about because the character is still the same character from WordPerfect's perspective. The only ones counted were the ones that were so drastically changed that a new WP character mapping was required. The reason for using the example of the IIP is that there are no character differences between the LaserJet IIP and LaserJet III. Most of the differences occurred between the Series II and the LaserJet IID, but some additional character changed for the IIP. HP has assured me that they are through significantly changing any characters in an existing symbol set. |
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