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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco
Subject: Re: Problems with troff output on a laser printer
Message-ID: <3026@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 20:20:23 GMT
References: <2984@hsi86.hsi.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <2984@hsi86.hsi.com> rao@hsi86.hsi.com (Ananth Rao) writes:
| 
| Has anyone got 'troff' to work with a laser printer, specifically the
| HP Laserjet III?  

| Is there something I'm doing wrong?

  An LJ3 is not a c/a/t. What you need is software to convert the output
in the format required for the cat device to output for the LJ3 device.
They are totally different, the c/a/t is a 2000 dpi (from memory) output
device to film. The LJ3 is very nice for a low resolution printer, but
it doesn't take the c/a/t commands (or produce production quality
output).

  I think jetroff does this, I know you can use the ELAN Eroff package
and get great results doing this.
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