Help needed with Techjet, Canon, HP, Heidi Wide-Format-Printer, Plotter

[goonmunster]

Please help me with the following problems. I recently received a
TechJet 5336 PS w/ postscript option. I am making the Techjet
available to our local Resident/Community Association to print posters
11x17 - 36x48 which are placed at various locations in the community,
in relation to various events.

I've been experimenting with various drivers and found that the Canon
W3050 - W9000, HP GL/2, HP 750C/PS all work with to some degree with
the Techjet 5336 under win2000 and/or Linux and/or OSX. However, I
noticed that it takes a very long time to print. This appears to be
related to the page-at-a-time mechanism used to print.

Does anyone know of other compatible
Postscript/CAD/Canon/Epson/Techjet/HP/Other drivers that work with the
Techjet 5336 PS that might work with the printer, under linux, win2k,
or winxp.

Does anyone know whether or not other manufacturers used a compatible
print-engine?

Can anyone tell me the difference between the Techjet 5336, 5436, 5636
print engines?

Does anyone know where I can find line-at-a-time drivers that might
work with the Techject 5336? Is there a way to con vine one of the
previously mentioned page-at-a-time drivers to print to the Techjet
5336 one line-at-a-time?

Does anyone know where I can find a relatively new compatible ROM for
the Techjet 5336?

The documentation says that the Techjet 5336 can accept upto 64 MB of
memory. In my experience the documented memory limit may be exceeded,
is that the case for the Techjet 5336?

Any help would be appreciated.

Please and Thank You

The Brockton Initiative
http://brockton.dyndns.org

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

Have you contacted the manufacturers of the TechJet printer?

 

[goonmunster]

Thanks for all your help.

Here's what I found. The Techjet 5336 can produce what some friends on
our street call "Professional Quality Work" (18x30" in ~5mins) using
the Canon W3050 driver, on Win2K, WinXP. The output is similar to a
1200 dpi color laser.

I tried the calcomp drivers, they worked with text, but they failed
miserably with bitmaps. In addition, web searches revealed that
numerous others had similar issues/problems with the calcomp drivers A
few people tried the HP 750 drivers, but with varying degrees of
success.

AFAICT, canon's secret - the driver converts the entire document,
including text, line drawing to a bitmap of the appropriate resolution.
The canon driver, then sends the print-job to the printer a few lines
at a time. The processing is done by the host computers CPU. This
approach significantly reduces the printer/plotter processing to
switching color tables, removes the burden of scaling, and results in a
printjob that takes minutes instead of days. Most inkjet printers
appear to use this method. My guess is the Canon W3050 is the same
printer/plotter with makeup, as are many others.

Yes the Techjet 5336 is old, but like an older color laser techtronix,
or Optra, the output is hard to beat even with a plotter/printer
costing a $1000.00 or more. Since this came for $0.00 it was worth
spending a little time.

Thanks again,

EGON

--- alan w wrote
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[bob2251]

canon driverfor techjet

I have tried the canon W3959 driver on my techjet 5336,but it would not find the printer . How do you make it work? compac laptop , win XP , par. port . Now using old 98 driver , but it is slow