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From: ergo@netcom.UUCP (Isaac Rabinovitch)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: Looking for postscript for HP Deskjet
Message-ID: <20746@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 91 04:13:31 GMT
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In <980006@hp-vcd.HP.COM> neff@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Dave Neff) writes:

>>Does software or a cartridge exist that can turn the Deskjet into a
>>postscript printer?  I'm familiar with ghostscript, but I do not have a C
>>compiler so it is not an option for me.

>Since the DeskJet is not a page printer, a postscript cartridge for the
>DeskJet is not feasible.  There are software packages that convert PostScript
>to DeskJet (and many other) printers.  These packages are generally slow,
>expensive, ram hungry, and in some cases buggy.  If you have a fast PC,
>at least 2 megs, and patience the software packages might do what you
>need :-).  I don't know which packages are the "best", but Freedom of
>the Press (Mac only I believe) and Go-Script (PS only I believe)
>are some options.

Sure, the software's slow, but so's the printer!  Anybody who buys a
DJ instead of a laser printer is short on funds and long on patience,
so the speed of the software's not a big issue.

One good choice is probably GoScript Select, which is the HP-only
version of GoScript.  It's in my Programmer's Connection catalog at
$79.

The big problem here is to avoid tying up your working machine while
the software does its hours-long crunching.  One solution is to put
in a DesqView or Windows background partition at low priority.
Another is to take an old valueless PC and use it just to drive your
printer.
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