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From: harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold)
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Subject: Re: Need recommendation on lowest cost, full featured laser printer
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Date: 1 May 91 18:10:40 GMT
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In article <254@dosbears> drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston) writes:
>In article <marshall.672696653@wind55> marshall@wind55.seri.gov (Marshall L. Buhl Jr.) writes:
  Re the HPIII:
>Does the resolution enhancement only work with its own fonts,
>or does it help with graphics, stuff printed with ATM or other
>windows font scalers, etc.?
>
   The resolution enhancement takes place "last", so it works
on anything.  So they say. It certainly seems to work...it's
even noticable.  Not that the difference reaches out and 
smacks you in the face, but I compared an HPII and HPIII plot
(from Quattro Pro) and could tell the difference (had to
look closely , though).  I use Intellifont to provide Windows
font scaling and run ATM as well to give me "weird stuff"
(which I couldn't live without :-).  This way most text is
printed very fast, with only occasional bitmaps being sent 
by ATM.  I like the printer, but I'd like to see more
support for the PCL5 language.  That will come, though.

BY THE WAY...I'll use this as an opportunity to voice a 
peave, and if any HP people are listening I'd really
appreciate a response.  The HPIII supports, internally,
symbol character sets in it's scalable fonts.  You can
see in the manual that this includes the Windows symbol
set.  And yet, windows doesn't think the printer
can do symbols.  Even using the HPIII driver included with
Intellifont.  I find it appalling that the printer 
supports these characters, and yet nobody told windows
(through the driver) that it had them.  Nor does 
Intellifont access them.  I have to use ATM to get
symbol characters that are already in my printer.  A
letter to HP has had no response.  Anybody have anything
to say on this subject?  HP Tech support just said
"nope.  you can't do that." Verrry annoying.

   James Harold
   harold@lpf.umd.edu