[GEM Development] HP Laserjet 6P

[François Vanzeveren]

To all

Thank you for your answers.

I do not have this printer but there was one for sale on ebay... But for the
time being, I will stick with my Brother HL-2030 and going through windows
when I need to print.

Regards

François

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Clayton" <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
To: "GEM Development" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2012 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [GEM Development] HP Laserjet 6P


> Much as I thought (about the driver issue).
>
> The difference between the 6P and the 6MP is, as you said.
>
>
>
> In detail, the the 6P has PCL 5 built-in  to a ROM, 2MB RAM built-in, and
3 open RAM slots. The 6MP has the same PLUS one RAM slot is used (leaving
two open) for a Postscript ROM module with 1MB RAM on it as well. (This
gives 3MB for an 6MP.)
>
> The RAM slots take ordinary 70nS 72-pin fast-page mode (FPM) SIMMS; < or =
16MB per slot. The "chip arrangement" seems to not matter. x8, x9 or x2
(lying on their 'side') have all functioned. BTW, I've _occasionally_ found
60nS ones to work. (I've NEVER had ANY Extended Data Out (EDO) SIMMs to
function.) With, say, 12MB present; it's about 30 seconds to the "Ready"
state is reached, from turn on.
>
> Holding the first button down (while turning on OR for ?four? seconds
while already on) gives one type of print-out (I think the "demo page").
Holding BOTH, it and the "long" button down gives you the other (the "tech
details" page). (I could have these backwards!)
>
> There. MORE than you EVER wanted to know about LJ 6 P / MP printers.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Thomas Clayton
>
>
> --- On Fri, 4/27/12, Ben A L Jemmett <ben at jemmett.me.uk> wrote:
>
> > From: Ben A L Jemmett <ben at jemmett.me.uk>
> > Subject: Re: [GEM Development] HP Laserjet 6P
> > To: "'GEM Development'" <gem-dev at simpits.org>
> > Date: Friday, April 27, 2012, 9:48 AM
> > > I am wondering wether the HP
> > LaserJet 6P would work properly
> > > with OpenGEM 6? Which driver should I use? What about
> > the
> > > original GEM/3?
> >
> > I would try it with the HP LaserJet 300dpi driver from
> > GEM/3, PDHPU9.SYS --
> > I don't know what's included with OpenGEM, but that driver
> > can be found on
> > John Elliott's site at http://www.seasip.info/Gem/Drivers/printer.html.
> > Alternatively, if you have the PostScript language support
> > installed on your
> > printer (I believe it's only standard on the 6MP, and an
> > option on the 6P),
> > the PostScript driver PDPST9.SYS might also be a good
> > choice; I've used that
> > one in the past to get high-resolution colour output by
> > printing to
> > PostScript and running the results through GhostScript or
> > converting to PDF.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ben A L Jemmett.
> > http://flatpack.microwavepizza.co.uk/
> >
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