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From: jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Win 3.0 + Winword + Deskjet 500 = ?
Message-ID: <8829@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 91 17:38:28 GMT
References: <1991Apr17.221917.3135@coral.bucknell.edu> <28103@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Reply-To: jcwasik@PacBell.COM (Joe Wasik)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
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In article <28103@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> wyle@inf.ethz.ch (Mitchell Wyle) writes:
>I am comtemplating buying a Deskjet 500 for use with Win 3.0 and Winword 1.1.
>I will probably also get ATM to clean up fonts.
>Has anyone had any experience with this setup, either good or bad?
>Any recommendations???

I have this exact configuration.

Winword works as advertised with the DJ500.

The 'print' option on the File-Manager menu does not work properly.  It tries
to print one more line than the DJ can handle.  Hopefully this bug in the
DJ driver will be fixed soon.

The expensive ink-catridges on the DJ can be re-filled.  The cheapest way
is to do it your self. You need a syringe, 1 inch, 22 gauge needle. The
more CCs, the better.  It takes 12+ CCs to refill a cartridge.  Use any
black ink.  Inject it slooowly into hole in top of cartridge.  Use cotton
swap to clean bottom of cartridge (use water!).  Quality with my ink
(script [sp?], yellow box, black letters) is excellent. A little darker
than the original so draft mode looks more like formal mode.

Hope this helps...

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Joe Wasik, Pac*Bell, 2600 Camino Ramon, Rm 4E750V, San Ramon, CA (415)823-2422
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