From brigc@world.std.com Tue Jan 28 10:51:45 1997 Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers Path: stc06.ctd.ornl.gov!news.he.net!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!sn.no!news-stkh.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-lond.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!uunet!in2.uu.net!uucp1.uu.net!world!brigc From: brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) Subject: comp.periphs.printers - FAQ - Part 1 of 11 Version: 3.09 Message-ID: Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers Last-Modified: 1997/01/05 Summary: This posting contains a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers) about printers and should be read by anyone wishing to post to the comp.periphs.printers newsgroup. Sender: brigc@world.std.com (Brig C McCoy) Reply-To: brigc@world.std.com Organization: Southeast Kansas Library System, Iola, KS Posting-Frequency: monthly Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 05:23:40 GMT Archive-Name: comp-periphs-printers-faq Expires: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 00:00:00 GMT Lines: 172 comp.periphs.printers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List The FAQ is maintained by Brig C. McCoy who works at the Southeast Kansas Library System. I appreciate any and all suggestions for improving this FAQ. Please email suggestions, additions, comments, corrections, etc. to me at: Any changes from the previous edition will have a pipe (|) immediately preceding the changed lines and in the Table of Contents for that Subject. Sections which need work are marked with a caret (^). Any contributions to these sections would be appreciated. :) Copyright (C) 1997 by Brig C. McCoy. This FAQ may be reproduced anywhere for any reason. 'Course we'll think more highly of you if you send us any changes and/or additions you make for your own use so we can consider adding them to the FAQ for the whole community! This document is posted to the newsgroup comp.periphs.printers on or about the 25th of each month, at least when I remember! With the apparent loss of Arthur Muller's web site, the official HTML version is now on Blue Skyways, the Kansas State Library's web site: | | For those in Europe, Johannes Schmidt-Fischer has rather | generously agreed to provide a mirror of the HTML version | at: as of | approximately 10 Jan 1997. _______________ Subject: 00 Table of Contents Subject: 01 Introduction Subject: 02 Printer Classification Subject: 02.01 Dot-Matrix Printers (Impact Printers) Subject: 02.02 Daisywheel printers and Typewriters Subject: 02.03 InkJet Printers | Subject: 02.04 Laser and LED Printers Subject: 02.05 Color Printers Subject: 02.06 Other Printer Types Subject: 03 Printer Languages or Emulations Subject: 03.01 HP PCL and PJL | Subject: 03.02 PostScript Subject: 03.03 Epson ESC/P, ESC/P2 Subject: 03.04 IBM Proprinter Subject: 03.05 Other Emulations Subject: 04 Printer Interfaces | Subject: 04.01 Centronics (parallel) Interface Subject: 04.02 RS232 (serial) Interface Subject: 04.02.01 Connecting an Apple LaserWriter to a PC Subject: 04.03 RS422 (serial) Interface Subject: 04.04 HP-IB (parallel) Interface Subject: 04.05 HP-IL (serial) Interface Subject: 04.06 SCSI Interface Subject: 04.07 Infrared Interface Subject: 04.08 Network Interfaces Subject: 04.09 Interface Convertors Subject: 05 Printer Drivers Subject: 05.01 Operating System specific ^ Subject: 05.01.01 Macintosh Subject: 05.01.02 MS-DOS Subject: 05.01.03 MS-Windows, Windows-NT Subject: 05.01.04 OS/2 Subject: 05.01.05 UNIX Subject: 05.01.06 NeXTStep Subject: 05.01.07 Others Subject: 05.02 Program specific | Subject: 05.02.01 AutoCad | Subject: 05.02.02 GRAFSMAN ^ Subject: 05.02.03 Lotus 1-2-3 | Subject: 05.02.04 WordPerfect Subject: 05.02.05 Others Subject: 06 Printer Supplies Subject: 06.01 Supplies in general Subject: 06.02 Refilling and Recycling Subject: 06.02.01 Re-inking ribbons | Subject: 06.02.02 Re-inking cartridges (Inkjet/Bubblejet) | Subject: 06.02.03 Re-filling laser toner cartridges ^ Subject: 06.02.04 Re-cycling laser pc drums ^ Subject: 06.03 Paper supplies ^ Subject: 06.03.01 Paper supplies for laser printers ^ Subject: 06.03.02 Paper supplies for inkjet printers Subject: 07 Printer Troubleshooting Subject: 07.01 PostScript printing problems Subject: 07.01.01 Timeout and other PostScript errors Subject: 07.01.02 PostScript and the Ctrl-D business Subject: 07.01.03 PostScript Character Set | Subject: 07.01.04 PostScript Test Page Code Subject: 07.02 LaserJet printing problems Subject: 07.02.01 Using PRINT SCREEN under DOS. Subject: 08 Average printing costs Subject: 09 Miscellaneous Information | Subject: 09.01 GhostScript Subject: 09.02 Converting between Emulations Subject: 09.02.01 Converting PostScript to other emulations Subject: 09.02.02 Converting other emulations to PostScript Subject: 09.02.03 Other Conversions | Subject: 09.03 Printing T-shirts Subject: 09.04 Miscellaneous Internet Resources Subject: 09.05 Paper Sizes | Subject: 10 Vendor Contact Information | Subject: 10.01 Apple Subject: 10.02 Canon Subject: 10.03 Hewlett-Packard | Subject: 10.04 QMS ^ Subject: 10.05 Seiko Instruments Subject: 10.06 Tektronix Subject: 10.07 Lexmark | Subject: 10.08 Roland Digital Group | Subject: 10.09 Seikosha America, Inc. ^ Subject: 10.10 Okidata | Subject: 10.11 Star Micronics Subject: 10.12 Fargo | Subject: 10.13 Brother Industries, Ltd. Subject: 10.14 Epson | Subject: 10.15 Panasonic Subject: 10.16 BlackLightning, Inc. Subject: 10.17 Kodak ^ Subject: 10.18 Abaton Technology | Subject: 10.19 Citizen America Corp Subject: 10.20 Dataproducts Corp | Subject: 10.21 D-Link Systems, Inc. | Subject: 10.22 Fujitsu Computer Products | Subject: 10.23 Genicom Corp. Subject: 10.24 Houston Instruments Subject: 10.25 Laser Master ^ Subject: 10.26 Laser Printer Accessories | Subject: 10.27 Laser Tools Subject: 10.28 Mannesmann Tally Subject: 10.29 NEC Technologies | Subject: 10.30 NewGen Systems Corporation, Inc. Subject: 10.31 Pacific Data Products | Subject: 10.32 Pentax Technologies | Subject: 10.33 Texas Instruments ^ Subject: 10.34 Toshiba Printer Products Subject: 10.35 Environmental Laser | Subject: 10.36 GCC Technologies Subject: 10.37 Advanced Matrix Technology | Subject: 10.38 GDT Softworks, Inc. | Subject: 10.39 Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC) Subject: 10.40 MicroSoft | Subject: 10.41 Kyocera Corporation | Subject: 10.42 Kentek Information Systems Subject: 10.43 LaserSaver | Subject: 10.44 GRC Subject: 10.45 Patton Electronics Company | Subject: 10.46 Ganson Engineering Company Subject: 10.47 Xerox Subject: 10.48 GS Corporation | Subject: 10.49 MIS Associates, Inc. Subject: 11 Glossary | Subject: 12 Credits _______________ Subject: 01 Introduction As is the case with all FAQ lists, this document is intended to help answer frequently asked questions that appear on the newsgroup comp.periphs.printers. If you have any items you think should be here, please let me know. _______________ ===== End of Part 1 of 11