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From: dhosek@sif.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: DVI to Laserjet anyone?
Keywords: dvi,laser,laserjet,hp,pcl
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Date: 17 Jul 90 20:48:28 GMT
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In article <1990Jul17.133015.21605@ibmpcug.co.uk>, jaggy@ibmpcug.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) writes...
>Anyone got a DVI to Laserjet driver? I'm running dvi2ps at the moment but
>lots of people insist on using the printer in hp compatible mode (This is
>an NEC 890 by the way). I though of prepending stuff to make it switch down
>into postscript and back to hp afterwards but after reading the manual
>can't find anyway to go from hp to postscript other than pressing the
>buttons on the front at the appropriate time. Therefore I'm now thinking
>of dvi'ing straight to Laserjet output. I know there's some stuff in the
>TeX distribution that makes a start at this  but not having a Pascal
>compiler I really need C.

>Of course I *could* wade in and write one myself but surely someone has
>already built this wheel?

Warning: Of all printers claiming HP Laserjet compatibility, only
the following have passed exhaustive testing:
  - HP LaserJet
  - HP LaserJet +
  - HP LaserJet II
  - HP LaserJet IIP
  - HP LaserJet IID
  - HP LaserJet III
In particular, I know of *NO* non-HP laser printer which can
handle downloaded bitmap fonts in LJ mode (which is a critical
feature if you're printing TeX output). Nelson Beebe will have
support for various HP "compatible" printers in his release 3 of
his DVI drivers (I think he might be distributing executables
now, source is definitely NOT available). For details contact him
at beebe@science.utah.edu

-dh

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