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From: SLVQC@CUNYVM (Salvatore Saieva)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Canon bubble jet
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Date: 17 Dec 90 21:41:21 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.031521.15604@csis.dit.csiro.au>, ken@csis.dit.csiro.au
(Ken Yap) says:
>
>Anybody tried using one of these as DVI output devices? Apparently has
>up to 360 dpi resolution. I expect that one would have to print in
>bands, etc.

A professor in our Chem department bought one for home use.
I haven't seen it, but he says the print quality is pretty
good and he likes it a lot. He is currently printing TeX
documents to it in a very round about way: He TeX's a file,
then runs dvialw to get PostScript. He is sending the PostScript
through GoScript which then sends ProPrinter codes to the
Bubble Jet. In the ProPrinter emulation I don't think you get
the 360dpi resolution, I think it has it's own emulation for
the higher quality.

For what it gives you this printer may be a really cheap way to
get decent output. Is anyone writing a dvi driver for it? (I'm
sure this would be welcomed news for our Chem professor.) If so,
maybe we could beta test.

Sal.
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