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From: stoecke@gauss.unm.edu (Mike Stoeker)
Subject: DeskJet 500 Printer Drivers
Organization: University of New Mexico Math Dept., Albuquerque, NM
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.222330.1912@ariel.unm.edu>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 91 22:23:30 GMT
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Hi,
	I have recently purchased a DeskJet 500.  I am satisfied with the 
quality of the print, but I am unable to print much from the wordprocessor
I am using to write my dissertation, ChiWriter.  From what I gather, the driver
in ChiWriter was written for the DeskJet (not Plus or 500).  Even worse, the
driver was not written to use the DeskJet's internal or cartridge fonts.  So 
apparently the driver expects to download big-RAM amounts of softfonts to print
any document.  Of course, the DJ500 only has 16K of memory, so most of my doc-
uments won't print with the specified fonts.  (A print job typically may contain
Greek, Math, Symbol, Linedraw, Bold, Small, and Standard (Roman8) fonts.)

Questions:  How much memory do I need to get in the form of HP's DeskJet RAM
cartridges?  Is one 256K cartridge sufficient?  I hope so, because I already
am using one cartridge slot with the Prestige Elite font cartridge!  Anyone out
there have experience with ChiWriter and the DJ500?  

Any suggestions on how to get the Windows 3.0 DJ500 Scalable Printer Driver
provided by HP with the DJ500 to utilize cartridge fonts?  I can't believe
HP actually wrote this driver without provisions for cartridge fonts!  Can
we modify the driver so that it will use the Prestige Elite cartridge fonts 
like the DeskJet family driver provided with Win 3.0?  Do I need extra RAM
for Window's drivers?  I don't currently have an application for Win 3.0
that creates Math, Greek, Linedraw, etc. fonts.  I've only been able to play
a little with the Write utility in Win 3.0.

Thanks for any help.

Mike Stoecker