Laserjet II problems

[gihill at thunder.lakeheadu.ca]

We are having problems producing hard-copy plots on our HP Laserjet series
II.  The plots are produced by a statistical package called "S-plus".  Our
hardware/software config. is as follows:

        -------------                     -------------
        | SUN 3-160 |=====ethernet========| SUN 3-180 |
        |  v4.0.3   |                     |    v3.5   |
        -------------                     -------------
           ALM2                               ALM1
             |                                  |
             |                                  |
        -------------                   ------------------
        |  X-term   |                   | HP Laserjet II |
        |  running  |                   ------------------
        |  S-plus   |
        -------------

We can generate these nice 2-d and 3-d plots on the X-terminal but when
trying to print them on the HP we get a partial plot or nothing at all.
For example, it seems to plot the labels for x-y axis (which are just
acsii characters), but won't plot the axis itself.  Also, sometimes the
Laserjet curser postitioning commands come are printed on the graph. e.g.
'*p1154x581y'.  I have dumped the plot file and it seems to be OK.

No error codes are displayed on the HP status window.  The Laserjet is
connected to a synchronous port on the 3-180 and we have had *no* problems
printing regular text files on it.  I have checked with the S-plus vendor
and they can't see anything wrong with our setup.

I am wondering whether our printcap entry is wrong.  Ours is:

hp|Hewlett Packard:\
        :lp=/dev/tty0d:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/hp:\
        :xc#400:\
        :fc#0177777:\
        :fs#040:\
        :xs#40:\
        :br#9600:\
        :pw#80:\
        :pl#60:\
        :if=/usr/lib/hpf


Can Laserjet II users send me theirs for comparison ?  Any other ideas?

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