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From: GERLOFF@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HP DESKJET DRIVERS
Message-ID: <91065.120520GERLOFF@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 6 Mar 91 10:05:20 GMT
References: <*V?&*=+@warwick.ac.uk>
Organization: Technical University Berlin
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In article <*V?&*=+@warwick.ac.uk>, csuac@warwick.ac.uk (The Juggler) says:
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>To anyone with a Deskjet printer
>

Hello Paul!

>I own a 1 meg St system and am looking to buy a respectable printer. The
>deskjet seems to be the best bet but I am concerned as to the availability of
>printer drivers for this machine. I will be using packages such as Calamus,
>1st Word+, Degas, Deluxe Paint. Do you know if HP Deskjet drivers exist for
>these packages and do you have any information on a plug in Epson card for the
>deskjet that makes it Epson LQ compatible.

I didn't use any of these packages, but you can try the driver for the
HP-LaserJet. It will work with the DeskJet 500 until it requires special
features of a laser-printer (fontdownload, free--positioning of objects (which
would require a reverse paper-transport, that didn't work on the DeskJet)
and any other thing that requires to construct the page first complete in RAM
before it can be printed).
The only Epson emulation card from HP, which I know, emulates the obsolete
9-pin FX series printers.

>One other thing. I have only read a review on the new Deskjet 500. Do you know
>what the difference is between this model and the two before it, the original
>deskjet and the deskjet+. There seems to be an alarming price difference and I
>am worried there will be an alarming performance difference as well.
>

First of all the DeskJet+ has more fonts than the DeskJet and the DeskJet 500
has more fonts than the DeskJet+. These are Courier, Letter Gothic and CG Times
for printing in portrait and landscape mode. Second there are font cards that
you can't use with the older printers. Third I think the speed has been
improved for text and graphics mode. I personally use my DeskJet 500 with a
german TeX implementation and will be very happy with the speed (My old 24-pin
dot matrix printer needed 15 minutes to print a page in high quality, the
Deskjet 500 did it in 60 seconds :-)).

I hope this will help you

Greetings, Olaf
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