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From: jrg@hpda.UUCP (Jeff Glasson)
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Subject: 1520 Plotter
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Date: Thu, 2-May-85 14:19:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  2 14:19:56 1985
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Organization: Hewlett Packard Co. Cupertino, CA.
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I have just purchased a 1520 plotter for $49 at Toys R Us.

I am trying to write some PROMAL functions to control the plotter.
The problem I am having is that when I try to either change the character
size or the pen color, the color always goes to black and the character size
is always set to 80 chars per line.

I have even tried to write the low-level I/O routines in assembly in case
PROMAL does something wierd.  The results are the same.

I can print a file on the plotter just fine otherwise (I has to write a
little ASCII to PETSCII program since PROMAL deals in real ASCII).

The plotter works fine from BASIC (yuk!).  My question is:  Does BASIC do
anything special with strings printed using PRINT# ?

Jeff Glasson
Hewlett-Packard ISO
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