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From: rbp@investor.pgh.pa.us (Bob Peirce #305)
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Subject: Re: Printer help
Message-ID: <1991Feb13.211037.25446@investor.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 13 Feb 91 21:10:37 GMT
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In article <1991Feb6.080032.18350@engin.umich.edu> gilgalad@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
>Hi.  It's me again :)   Anyways, since I got very little response on my first
>post, I thought that I'd make a more pointed post.  What printer should I
>use with my NeXT?  I am loathe to purchase a laser since I really cannot
>afford it.  Is there any hope of using a dot matrix with it?  Graphics is
>a must.  Has anybody been able to use a dot matrix or an ink jet with
>the NeXT? 

Eric Scott wrote a filter to drive an Image Writer.  I am converting it
to work on an Epson LQ-510.  So far I just have the text part working,
and it works great.  Since the LQ-510 has Times Roman and Sans Serif
(similar an maybe equal to Helvetica) and does proportional spacing,
saving Edit or WriteNow text in ascii allows it to be printed pretty
much the way it looks.  I do need to do something about <TAB> and I
don't know about underline, italics and bold, but straight text is
fine.

I did find the arguments you can send to the filter seem to be limited
to those the lpr command already uses.  I don't know if or why this is
true, but that is my experience so far. 

Since I do not know postscript or the Image Writer, I have had trouble
understanding that phase of the program.  However, it appears to be
straightforward and I expect to be able to convert it.

I am told 1.0 is limited to 72 dpi.  However, 2.0 supposedly has much
higher limits, well beyond what I am likely to need.
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Bob Peirce, Pittsburgh, PA				  412-471-5320
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