Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!rutgers!cmcl2!esquire!sbb
From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Printing to an HP plotter
Message-ID: <262@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 87 21:29:54 GMT
Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
Lines: 22
Keywords: plotter, printer drivers
Summary: Help Citibank become PC-less!

Hi gang.  I know this has been covered before, but when it was I didn't have a
friend who needed the information.  Actually I had the friend, but...

So what I need to know is:  How can my friend make some use out of his
fancy-shmancy 8 pen HP color plotter?  The folks in his office are converting
over to Macs from the PC world (yea!), but they'd still like color output for
stuff like organizational charts, graphs and the like.

	1) Are there programs out there that directly support color output
and/or the plotter (i.e., spreadsheets, presentation packages, etc.)?

	2) Are there plotter drivers available for use with those programs that
otherwise only support the standard Apple printers?  I seem to remember
something about a company called SoftWorks (?) in Hawaii of all places, but
I can't find out anything more about them.  Maybe I dreamed it... :-)

Please send your responses to me, and I'll post a summary to the net.  Thanks
for your help.

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   Steve Baumgarten             | "New York... when civilization falls apart,
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