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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: DeskWriter & GS
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Date: 23 Mar 90 05:04:00 GMT
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(This is for someone named Seymour; yet another case of the original
From:  line being eaten by some mailer somewhere):

You asked about how well or whether an HP DeskWriter would work with a
GS.  I don't know specifically aboutt the DeskWriter, but I've been
using a DeskJet with my GS for a couple of years now; I think the two
are fairly compatible.  It works fine with nothing fancy for straight
text without any driver, e.g., I use it once in awhile with classic
appleworks.  I don't remember anymore evenhow I set up the printer
definition.  I use it most heavily with WordPerfect; there I had to do
some of my own printer definition files because the ones that came form
WPCorp eventually weren't quite right.  (Somehow I volunteered to be a
beta tester for them awhile ago, so I haven't the foggiest idea what
comes out in normal distribution.)  For other things like the occasional
picture I slip in an Epson emulation cartridge and use the now
apparently standard Epson driver.  Works great.  I'm only sorry (the
usual lament) that I bought it about six months before the DeskJetII.

TMPLee@dockmaster.ncsc.mil