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From: neff@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Dave Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: LasetJet print driver for DeskJet?
Message-ID: <1220007@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 90 20:56:41 GMT
References: <1990Dec18.113611.1256@urz.unibas.ch>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Vancouver, WA
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>Because I know that the DeskJet Plus is (almoast) fully compatible
>with the LJ, I wanted to use it. But the printout was quite funny!

The better way of saying it is the DeskJet Plus is marginally compatible
with the LJ.  The DeskJet is not a page printer and does not use LaserJet
soft (or hard) font formats.  Getting RAM for your DJ will not help it
one bit in using LaserJet soft fonts.  There are LaserJet to DeskJet
soft font conversion utilities, but even then the DeskJet spacing will
usually be different due to the fact that the DeskJet Plus cannot kern
fonts (the DeskJet 500 can, so conversion utilities that support the 500
could preserve LaserJet spacing).

So if you bought more memory, your problem would not really be much
closer to being solved.  You really need a DeskJet Plus specific driver
for most all applications.

Dave Neff
neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM