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From: MBDZM@ROHVM1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Help with HP LJIIP
Message-ID: <90337.125202MBDZM@ROHVM1.BITNET>
Date: 3 Dec 90 17:52:02 GMT
References: <46650006@hpindwa.cup.hp.com>
Organization: Rohm and Haas Company
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I am running  a MAC classic with an HP IIP.  I use MACPRINT to drive the
printer.  It works fine, with the following caveats:

1.  MACPRINT will use the standard "HARD" fonts in your IIP.  They will be
    printed at 300 dpi no matter what resolution you print at.

2.  MACPRINT will use any of the cartriges that it knows about.  The MACPRINT
    people are pretty up on things, but it may not support an
    off the wall or very new cart.

3. Any font that is not available in the printer is printed by graphing it.
   You need enough memory on the printer to support a whole page of graphics.
   These means that draft and medium res mode (75/150 dpi) will work with a
   stock IIP, but for HIGH res mode, you need 1.5 meg.

4. MAC fonts are 72 dpi. In order to get better looking type macprint will
   use a font 4 times the size if one can be found (ie 48 point for 12 point),
   if one isn't available, it tries twice and doubles each dot.  If one still
   isn't found, it uses the screeen font and quadruples each dot (yeech).

The output looks pretty good as long as you follow the rules.  Note that using
font "LJ Cur. 12" will print in seconds as you are transmitting a page of ASCII
chars.  Using "Cur. 12" will take minutes to print as you are transmitting a
page of 300 dpi graphics.