Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ucselx!ucsd!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucbvax!mtxinu!rtech!dosbears!drp From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Need recommendation on lowest cost, full featured laser printer Message-ID: <270@dosbears> Date: 2 May 91 10:35:19 GMT References: <1991Apr24.142106.17102@cbnewsh.att.com> <254@dosbears> <1991May1.181040.1577@wam.umd.edu> Reply-To: drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com (David R. Preston) Distribution: na Organization: DosBears Lines: 20 In article <1991May1.181040.1577@wam.umd.edu> harold@wam.umd.edu (James B. Harold) writes: >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. I don't know if this will help, but when I found out that the windows driver didn't know that the HP Deskjet Plus could do courier italics, I selected the courier cartridge in printer setup (even though I don't have any font cartridges). Maybe you could select a cartridge that has symbols and trick windows. -- David R. Preston drp%dosbears.uucp@ingres.com The world hadn't ever had so many moving parts or so few labels. D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA