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From: shinn@sunwhere.DAB.GE.COM (Steve Allen-Shinn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HP's PaintJet Color Printer
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Date: 7 Jul 89 21:26:07 GMT
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In article <2572@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM> rogerson@PEDEV.Columbia.NCR.COM (Dale Rogerson) writes:
>Has anyone played with the HP PaintJet printer?  I saw a print out
>of one the other day and was really impressed.  Does it require special
>paper to use? 

I have some experience with the PaintJet.  It doesn't require special paper,
but it is highly recommended.  It is basically a ThinkJet with a second head
for color.  While the output is spectacular (very good at least :-) on the
PaintJet paper, it can be very poor on cheap paper.  I would guess that you
can test the paper with a felt tip pen.  If that looks good, I think the 
PaintJet output would look good.  Including "white", it has 8 colors 
available for text and normal graphics (180 dpi) and 16 colors for reduced
resolution (90 effective dpi) graphics.

I have done no graphics programming with it, but have used the output from 
an HP logic analyzer.  The resulting picture is impressive.

                     - Steve

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