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<\/a><\/p>\nCartridge<\/h2>\n
The cartridge is about 9×14 cm in size.<\/p>\n
The front says<\/p>\n HEWLETT PACKARD<\/p>\n PostScript Cartridge Plus<\/p>\n ITC Avant Garde Gothic\u00ae HP The back says<\/p>\n Adobe and PostScript are registered trademark of Adobe Systems Here is the front without the components: The board contains 6 74-series logic chips:<\/p>\n and four 512 KB mask ROM chips of the type Fujitsu MB834200B-15 (27C400 pinout). They are all marked with<\/p>\n \u00a9 1991 HP-BOISE These are the verbatim dumps (adjacent bytes are swapped):<\/p>\n This is the combined (byte-swapped<\/a>) 2 MB ROM image:<\/p>\n HP PostScript Cartridge Plus C2089A ROM<\/a>, MD5 8a5d1f66ab1624e7188fc07154f4224d<\/p>\n The ROM image starts with a signature of “SYST” and the following messages at 0x30:<\/p>\n V9H-18f PSCRIPT The ROM contains Adobe’s PostScript Level 2 rasterizer compiled for the 68000 CPU, the PostScript base fonts as well as some LaserJet-specific software (messages, errors and settings texts for the 15 char display in several languages).<\/p>\n There is also some PostScript source code in the ROMs!<\/p>\n (The missing Since this is printer-specific PostScript code, it may not work with computer-based rasterizers, so let’s go over them one by one.<\/p>\n This is “FONTPAGE” converted to PDF using GPL GhostScript:<\/p>\n fontpage.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n The PostScript code contains the “TEST PAGE” prints various internal printer settings which are unsupported by computer-based PostScript rasterizers, so some lines had to be removed for the file to work. These are the files hacked for different rasterizers:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\nITC Bookman\u00ae
\nCourier
\nHelvetica\u00ae
\nHelvetica-Narrow
\nNew Century Schoolbook
\nPalatino\u00ae
\nTimes\u00ae
\nITC Zapf Chancery\u00ae
\nTIC Zapf Dingbats\u00ae
\nSymbol
\nC2089A \u00a9Hewlett-Packard 1989, 1990, 1991<\/p>\n
\nLASERJET III
\nPOSTSCRIPT\u00ae<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n
\nIncorporated in the U.S, and other countries. Helvetica, Palatino and
\nTimes Roman are registered trademarks of Linotype AG and\/
\nor its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries. IT Avant Garde
\nGothic, ITC Bookman, ITC Zapf Chancery and ITC Zapf Dingbats are
\nregistered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation in the
\nU.S, and other countries.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nBoard<\/h2>\n
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\n\u00a9 1984-90 ADOBE
\n\u00a9 1981 LINOTYPE AG
\n\u00a9 1991 FUJITSU<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nROM<\/h2>\n
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\n09.H
\nCopyright © Hewlett-Packard Company, 1991. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nPostScript Files<\/h2>\n
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%!<\/code> file header has been added to the downloads.)<\/p>\nFONTPAGE<\/h3>\n
<\/p>\nproduct<\/code> operator, which returns the name of the printer, so the second line \u2013 “GPL Ghostscript printer” \u2013\u00a0would read “HP LaserJet III printer” on an actual LaserJet.<\/p>\nTEST PAGE<\/h3>\n