Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!stl!ajdh From: ajdh@stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew J D Hurley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: Various Questions Summary: PrinterLJ, DeskJets, QuietJets and friends Keywords: vi, DeskJet Message-ID: <4427@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 14 May 91 12:37:28 GMT References: <1991May13.215823.28893@cbnewse.att.com> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Andrew J D Hurley" Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 27 In the referenced article macduff@cbnewse.att.com (Roger R. Espinosa) writes: >For good quality output, the dot matrix is slow as sin. DeskJets >can be had fairly inexpensively around here, but my concern lies >with the printer driver. While Beebug does sell one (in the form >of the LaserJet driver), I don't know whether this driver works like >PrinterPS - does it use the RISC OS fonts, or is it doing a mapping >(like PrinterPS), which would change the usability of the DeskJet >quite a lot. Beebugs LaserJet driver (as supplied with Ovation) works just like PrinterDM, in other words RiscOs fonts _are_ used. I use this with a QuietJet+ which I got cheap, however, on this printer the pixel resolution is not what the driver thinks it is so pages don't come out the right size. I don't know, but I expect the same applies to DeskJets. It would seem that 150dpi mode on my QuietJet gives about 210dpi in real life therefore makeing pages too small unless I compensate by drawing them bigger - this is not satisfactory as I also use a Citizen Swif24 which prints at the right size. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? I've played around with parameters in the config files but with no success. -- Andrew J D Hurley, ( ajdh@stl.stc.co.uk ) Mail route: uunet!ukc!stl!ajdh | Phone: +44 279 429531 x. 2535 STC Technology Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK.