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From: jcb@cs.ed.ac.uk (Julian Bradfield)
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Subject: Re: DVI to HP PaintJet Colour Printer?
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Date: 11 Dec 90 14:53:04 GMT
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In article <1990Dec4.101958.807@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk>
justin@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Justin R Shuttleworth) writes:

>release on my Sun.  I have both a postscript printer and one of these 
>new-fangled HP PaintJet Colour printers and was wondering (as I
>cannot find one) whether you folks knew where I could find a DVI 
>converter for it.  It's an amazingly simple to drive raster device

If there isn't one around, I intend to write one, but not until February.

>It also occurs to me that a super driver could read say up to 8 .dvi
>files at once, and use the colour facilities of this printer.  The
>printer can print on to special (read expensive) transparencies so
>this means I could do my overheads in SliTeX and print them in 
>one go! Hurrah!

Yuk. I propose to support colour by making the default colour
changeable, and allowing the assignment of specific colours to
specific fonts, all controllable by \special's.
Some fairly simple hacks to SliTeX should then be possible to make it
produce the required specials in one dvi file.