Manual laserjet4

[amiga4001]

Hooked up a laserjet4 printer to my 4000.
Even found a compatible simm of 8 MB to increase the mem off the printer to 10 MB total.
It is connected to a hypercom4Z+ and driver is turboprint 7.0
Had problems with printerspooler and pagestream so removed printerspooler and prints ok now.
But kind off slow actually.
Before this one I had a epson stylus color 660 which was a lot faster.
So maybe I'll have to set some settings on the printer itself to speed it up.
But can't fins a manual for it..anybody?
And would it do me any good to get a later version off turboprint?
Or a newer IO card like the vario?
Or can anybody recommend a better printer for my miggie?

[alexatkin]

How slow?  LaserJet 4 are pretty old now.  Heck, even my LaserJet 6 is kinda ancient.

As I recall though LaserJets were fairly slow until the 5/6 series.  I got lucky, I went through a bag of SIMMs and managed to find a 16MB and two 8MB SIMMs that worked in the 6p which DRASTICALLY increased its speed.

However the combination of an Amiga with an LaserJet 4, well you can expect it to be slow.  Depending on your Amiga the LaserJet might even have a faster CPU - LOL.

[Ilwrath]

Yeah, also the I/O overhead itself is deadly.  Figure a full page image in strict black and white @ 300dpi is going to be around 10MB (less with compression, but still).  Consider how long it takes to send 10MB over any Amiga port...  (even a hypercom...)  :-(

The only thing that MIGHT speed you up would be to throw a JetDirect card in the printer and network it off an ethernet card in the Amiga.  Even this might offer no speed increase, though.  The bottleneck might still be working with such large page image files on the Amiga.

[amiga4001]

Well think it is the printer which is actually the problem for most part.
The stylus was much much faster with printing.
I used to make copies with my umax scsi scanner and after the scanning off the page was done it started printing right away.
A full A4 copy took about 20 secs to finish.
Not to bad and nice resolution for text /low res foto.
This laserjet receives the data and waits for about a minute or so before starting to print.
Why?Too low memory in laserjet or are these things actually so slow?
Maybe I'll have to find me another epson stylus printer.

 

[Matt_H]

Try finding a PostScript module. I use a LaserJet 4 with JetDirect and PostScript on my 4000T and it's quite zippy, even without TurboPrint.