Path: utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis
From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: troff on non-laser printers
Message-ID: <935@ecicrl.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 90 04:30:17 GMT
References: <294@pepper.rc.nokia.fi>
Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <294@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) writes:
>Does anyone know if troff (and not merely nroff) can be used with
>any inexpensive dot-matrix or ink jet printers? The particular
>printers that I have in mind are the HP Deskjet or Cannon BJ-10e.
>What sort of graphics emulation is necessary to get 'reasonable'
>output? Epson FX, IBM Proprinter (X-24E)...? Can the HP Deskjet
>emulate an HP Laserjet?

My understanding is that a Deskjet is moderately similar to the Laserjet
except that font downloading is completely different.

It is also my understanding that Psroff will work with *old* (CAT) troff
and generate codes that are more-or-less useable on the Deskjet using
the HPLJ code, however, the font downloading facilities of psroff won't
work.

I've finally given up on c.s.u and c.s.m for posting psroff - wait for
it in alt.sources.
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