Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: UPGRADES
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.015825.18666@utstat.uucp>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 90 01:58:25 GMT
References: <3373@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <3373@crash.cts.com> lbotez@pro-sol.cts.com (Lynda Botez) writes:
>Well, here's the latest on the state of the HP printer drivers.  I've seen the
>output on the HP Deskjet printer, and I'm very impressed.
>
>The drivers are being written by Bill Heineman (resident Apple II Santa Claus)
>for Seven Hills Software, the publishers of Graphicwriter III.  You see, they
>want their program to be THE desktop publishing program for the Apple IIGS.

This is extremely good news, especially the Paintjet driver[mentioned in
Lynda's article]. The Laserjet's,DeskWriter, and the PaintjetXL(I think that's
the name) now have Appletalk interfaces available. Do you know if the drivers
are meant to work over a network? The Deskjet has only a serial(and parallel)
interface as does the Paintjet. The DeskWriter uses a subset of the PCL HP
printing language( sorry meant Deskjet+) so any driver should work but it
would most likely demand a direct connection. Hope that's not the case!

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
[my opinions]
philip@utstat.toronto.edu