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From: akm@geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Deskjet Softfonts
Summary: Be wary of buying them
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.034213.29402@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 5 Jun 90 03:42:13 GMT
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In article <22080002@hpvcfs1.HP.COM> robertt@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Bob Taylor) writes:
>Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but (I realize this is poorly
>documented) the DeskJet and DeskJet Plus cannot handle a "temporary"
>download - it's a firmware issue.  When using the Windows soft font 
>installer, you must select permanent.  The confusion arises because we
>share the soft font installer with the LaserJet, which can do temporary
>downloads.  Sorry if this isn't what you wanted to hear -

It follows that it is probably a bad idea to invest in softfonts + RAM
cartridges for most people. When I last checked, (which was when I
bought a RAM cartridge and softfonts), the price of the equivalent
cartridges was lower... And, with the cartridges, you could get all
the fonts, while with the RAM cartridge, you can't load them all... So
much for any ideas of dynamically loading fonts...

I am dissapointed in HP's documentation. I looked very hard in my
Deskjet manual, and could find no mention a requirement that softfonts
be loaded before the job is printed, which is what HP now tells me...

kartik

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Anant Kartik Mithal					akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Department of Computer Science				akm@oregon.BITNET
University of Oregon