[CLUE-Tech] Compensating for insufficient printer memory

[Timothy Klein]

On Saturday 17 ShortJuly 2004 01:19 pm, Matt Gushee wrote:
> Hi, all--
>
> I recently bought a used HP LaserJet 5L, which works fine. Except that
> it only has 1MB of memory, so many large documents just won't print.
> I'd like to buy more memory for it, but unfortunately it requires a
> credit-card type memory module, which seems to be very hard to come by.
> Nobody's got it locally; I could buy it direct from HP, but they charge
> about $370 for 4 megs [GAG, SPLUTTER, COUGH!]. It's been suggested that
> I try eBay, and I may end up doing that, but ... I dunno, for whatever
> reason I really dislike buying anything online. Or maybe I should just
> buy a different printer.
>
> Anyway, whatever I end up doing about the hardware, for at least the
> next couple of weeks or so I'm stuck with this, and I have a lot of
> stuff to print. So my question is:
>
>   Is there a way to configure the spooler to split up large jobs into
>   chunks that the printer can handle? I'm using CUPS, and its manual
>   doesn't seem to address this issue; I could switch to LPR or LPRng
>   if absolutely necessary.

The printer itself has an option called 'page protect.'  On the HPs we had at 
work it was off by default.  Turning it on would eliminate memory errors.  
Presuamably it would work as long as a page was less than 1MB (but it slows 
down printing, I think).

Have you tried that?

Tim
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