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From: johnl@ima.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet and troff
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Date: Sat, 26-Jan-85 23:38:55 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 26 23:38:55 1985
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Nf-From: ima!johnl    Jan 26 19:02:00 1985

You can't download a page of 300dpi pixels to a LaserJet -- it doesn't have
enough memory.  There's room for a full page at 75dpi or correspondingly
less at higher resolution.  I have a little program that dumps my PC screen
to a LaserJet at 100dpi, dumping each scan row twice since the LaserJet has
square pixels and the PC's are about 2:1.  Even that takes about 30 secs to
dump the image to the printer.

All is not lost, though.  HP has a font cartridge with nice Times Roman
fonts which we use for half-hearted typesetting (under FinalWord.)  It
also has a small times font for footnotes and superscripts, and a large
sans-serif font for titles, as well as the built-in typewriter font.  Any
character can be printed at any position on the page, along with mixed-in
300dpi graphics subject to the graphics memory limitations.  All in all,
not a bad deal for three grand.

John Levine, ima!johnl