HP LJ 4L & font problem

[Janne]

Hi

I bought a second hand 4L and testing shows that somehow it will replace one
of the characters without any other erors of anykind.
So I print from Outlook in Windows2000 and got situation where "car" is
printed as "gar"

Can I do something ?

Janne

 

[Bennett J. Price, Ph.D.]

I think there are several things to check.

Try printing from a different application.

Print a test page - sorry I don't recall how to do this on the 4L - if
you get incorrect characters here
I think you can trash the printer.

Check whether the printer is set English language ASCII. If I remember
correctly, you can do a reset
on this printer by holding down the ONLINE button for a few seconds as
your power it up. Or you
can try to find HP's DOS based setup utility for this printer.

The other thing to do is to reinstall the printer driver; check HP's web
site to see whether they've got
a more recent driver than the one you are using. Also, if possible - I
don't know Win2K, make sure
that in printer properties the printer is set to English Ascii.

 

[Allodoxaphobia]

Courtesy copy emailed...

I bought a second hand 4L

Mine was $8.00! What was yours?

... testing shows that somehow it will replace one
of the characters without any other erors of anykind.
So I print from Outlook in Windows2000 and got situation where "car" is
printed as "gar"

Can I do something ?

There's just a 1-bit difference between "c" (X'63') and "g" (X'67').
One guess would be a memory problem.
Does it do this with _every_ "car" -- as in "carcarcarcarcarcar..."
throughout the page? Or, is it (semi)random?
Or, is it doing it on just one position on the page?

If you're lucky, simply re-seating the memory card may solve this.

More diagnostics might help point to, or rule out a memory problem.
Do a "ripple print" of tha alphabet across the page.
E.g., print:
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz...."
one time.
Then, print:
"bcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyza...."
And, on and on...

See if you can detect a 'pattern' in the mis-prints.
Refer to the "ASCII conversion Chart" usually found as
Appendix A-B-C-D-E-.... in nearly any `techie` computer book.

HTH
Jonesy