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From: akm@cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Deskjet font handling w/Windows woes
Summary: upgrade your deskjet
Keywords: desjet plus 500 fonts
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.203900.16273@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 18 Feb 91 20:39:00 GMT
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In article <91049.100507U39648@uicvm.uic.edu> U39648@uicvm.uic.edu (From The Mind Of) writes:
>I too, have had NO luck in getting soft-fonts to be recognized by Windows.

There seems to be enough interest to post this rather than to email it
to individual people.

I had an original deskjet with a 128k ram cartridge and TmsRmn and
Helv soft fonts. HP sent me an upgrade offer that went something like
this.

I could upgrade a deskjet to a deskjet 500 for $225.
I could upgrade a deskjet+ to a deskjet 500 for ~$169

I did. Involved shipping the thing to (at least in my case) HP at
Corvallis, Oregon. Along with my upgrade (which I got in 4 days: a
record?) I got a coupon for a free offer of the scalable fonts driver.
I think the deadline for that offer is real soon now, might be Feb
28th, but I can't remember when it is. I also got ATM, and am running
ATM with the driver that recognizes the deskjet 500. (This last I got
off a bulletin board...)

I currently use the soft fonts, ATM's fonts, the zillion fonts from
cica. Kinda fun...

kartik


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