ancient LaserJet's

Richard Erlacher was inquiring about ancient LaserJet IID's. Here is some info stored in my overloaded brain, maybe slightly garbled. In duplex mode the HP LaserJet IID printed the paper on one side then ejected the paper out the rear and then reinserted the paper to print the other side. It was kind of a triangular contraption that held the paper on the way out and then allowed it to be pulled back in. via parallel interfaces and downloading fonts took memory and time, the font cartridges offered the chance to have "standard" fonts already installed. The other problem was that occasionally somebody would send/download non HP fonts to the printer and then garbage would print for 20-50 pages. It was also difficult to track whose fonts were in the printer at any one time. We always reset between jobs. We also didn't install lots of printer memory. We later got a HP 2000 printer but we had nothing but problems, There were barcode fonts, graphic fonts, foreign languages, and line drawing fonts. I personally owned a IID and was given another but I donated them to the local not-for-profit computer surplus. Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu