LaserJet 2100TN: Drivers and Fonts

[Ben Myers]

Well, in the Windows XP environment of the OP, any TrueType font is scalable,
and down to really small point sizes. Courier New is monospaced, which is what
the OP wants, so it really should be easy for someone with basic knowledge of
document formatting to print a large document with a small font.

I used a number of handy freeware utilities for manipulating both PCL and
PostScript back in the dark days of MS-DOS... Ben Myers

 

[Ben Myers]

Back before nicely illustrated Acrobat PDFs became ever so popular, I used a
handy dandy DOS utility called LJBOOK. It would take a text-only file and
format it up so you could print two 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" pages side by side on a
single 8 1/2" x 11" page. It also had the option to print on both sides of the
paper. To do so, you would print some pages, then feed them back into the
printer to print on the backs of the original pages. All the pages came out in
the right order, so all you needed to do was to cut the paper in half and either
staple or punch holes to have a convenient sized book. The LaserJet's built-in
LinePrinter font was used. I have not used LJBOOK in a long time... Ben Myers

 

[Searcher7]

Back before nicely illustrated Acrobat PDFs became ever so popular, I used a
handy dandy DOS utility called LJBOOK. It would take a text-only file and
format it up so you could print two 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" pages side by side on a
single 8 1/2" x 11" page. It also had the option to print on both sides of the
paper. To do so, you would print some pages, then feed them back into the
printer to print on the backs of the original pages. All the pages came out in
the right order, so all you needed to do was to cut the paper in half and either
staple or punch holes to have a convenient sized book. The LaserJet's built-in
LinePrinter font was used. I have not used LJBOOK in a long time... Ben Myers

That was the ultimate goal of my project.

To print this document out on both sides.(Which I guess would have
brought it down from 86 to 43 pages).

It's amazing how a DOS utility would have accomplished this years ago,
but I cannot do it now on far more "advanced" hardware/software.

Darren Harris
Staten Island, New York.

 

[Ben Myers]

Well, if what you have is straight DOS (not Unix/Linux) text, I might be able to
find a copy of LJBOOK and email it to you. You would need to run it from a DOS
command box, and I confess that I have not tested it under Windows 2000/XP. I
think I even have the source assembly code. And I now forget what restrictions
there are on the printer it uses, except that the printer needs to know HP
Printer Control Language. And you may have to do something like do a NET USE
command to associate a printer with the DOS LPT1: standard printer.

Send me direct email if interested. Remove the _spam etc from the email address
used here... Ben Myers

 

[me]

It's amazing how a DOS utility would have accomplished this years ago,
but I cannot do it now on far more "advanced" hardware/software.

http://www.clickbook.com/index.php

 

[Ben Myers]

There is also open source and free software to handle text to PDF... Ben Myers