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From: 6600phnx@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Phoenix / Fig)
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Subject: Re: fonts for hp deskjet.
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Date: 5 Apr 91 22:14:19 GMT
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Well, I have a DJ500 and I tried the HP driver and it works well, but
.... you are right in saying that the fonts cost $99 each.  My solution
was to purchase ATM and Word for Windows.  This cost me about $200 total
and now I have all the fonts I want and any size I want, all of which
print just fine on my DJ.  The major problem with this is that with my
old DJ (the original) the printing speed for the graphics fonts was too
slow, and ATM and WfW are not very quick, so if you have a slow machine
then you will have to wait for WfW to format the ATM generated fonts.
Not to mention the brain dead way in which WfW undates the entire line
every time you type a character (to be fixed in the new ATM).  Summary,
I used to use fonts cart and soft fonts, but I'm much happier with ATM
and WfW.  Moral, if you have fast resources then my solution works, I'll
admit that on my old SX and DJ, Word 5.5 and soft fonts was the only way
to go.  

PS: there are lots of PD fonts avalible for ATM, just as in the MAC
world they take up a lot of disk space but they are free, I've got all
of the 'HP' fonts already and didn't pay one red cent.

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