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From: vgopal@cbnewsc.att.com (venu.p.gopal)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet graphics hardcopy
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.152411.6037@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 15:24:11 GMT
References: <168878@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <168878@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, pvalerio@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
! (edited for brevity)

!  One of our labs has recently purchased a Hewlett-Packard
!  Deskjet printer. Unfortunately, most of our experience with

 (we want to do)
!   1. Screen dump of graphics image using 'print-screen'
!      key on keyboard (this was *so* easy with a Panasonic
!      dot-matrix printer).
!      Incidentally, is there utility program aRound that
!      acts like DOS's memory-resident graphics.com, but
!      dumps to either a laserjet or deskjet.

I would be very surprised if there was NO such utility, given the
fact that these (well, at least the laserjet, which shares the
same language) are very common printers.

In case nobody can point you to such a program, another possibility
would be to capture the screen into a GIF file (you can use VGACAP,
there may be others), and then use VUIMAGE to print it to the deskjet.
This method has one advantage that you can scale the image to whatever
size you want.  If some other utility allows you to capture to a TIFF
file, that might also work with VUIMAGE.  VGACAP and VUIMAGE are
shareware.