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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Slow WP5.1 graphics to HP Deskjet
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.220148.15741@qualcomm.com>
Date: 25 Mar 91 22:01:48 GMT
References: <67630001@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> <67630003@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com> <1991Mar22.151145.5141@dvorak.amd.com>
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In article <1991Mar22.151145.5141@dvorak.amd.com> tennison@mozart.amd.com (Stephen Y. Tennison) writes:
>I have word perfect and was planning to buy an HP Deskjet 500 so I got kinda
>concerned when I read that there is a problem putting text and graphics on
>the same page.  So I called word perfect's tech number (1-800-541-5097) to
>see if there were any plans to write a real printer driver for the HP.
>
>Unfortunatly, the conversation went nowhere.  The person I talked to told me
>over and over that it was the printer's fault and that the Deskjet is a slow
>printer.  I told the person about the article that I had read and he said that
>the information in the article must be erroneous.  I also offered to read the
>article to him but he did not seem interested.

The DeskJet 500 is _not_ a slow printer.  It can cruise through a whole page
of 300x300 graphics in about a minute with the right software driving it.
Actually, I'm suprised at the reception you got, WP Techs are usually much more
reasonable.  I imagine he was trapped...  whoever wrote the drivers blamed it
on the printer, and this is probably the "official" word on it.  So if he
agrees with you, then he has to buck the official proclamations and the fact
that he's been told the DeskJet is slow.