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From: pdg@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Paul Gootherts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: IntroCAD and the HP QuietJet printer
Message-ID: <6080006@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 8 Sep 88 17:19:05 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
Lines: 62

I just bought a copy of IntroCAD last week and I really like it.  It's
nicely done for something so inexpensive (my application didn't rate
spending a lot of money).

Anyway, it uses printer description files rather than the standard
drivers, and documents (very well) the format of the description files
so you can roll your own if you have a printer that's not on their list.

This was the case for me; I have an HP QuietJet which has three print
densities:  96h x 96v (dpi), 192h x 96v, and 192h x 192v.

I've written a printer description files which seems to work and which
supports all three densities.  Also, it flips the printer out of
compatibility mode when it starts up (so you can use all 3 densities)
and puts it back (to whatever mode you have the switches set to) when
it's done.

So for anyone that might benefit from it (consider it freely
redistributable), I've included a shar at the end of all this.

__________________
Paul Gootherts
Hewlett Packard Co
hplabs!hpda!pdg

# This is a shell archive.  Remove anything before this line,
# then unpack it by saving it in a file and typing "sh file".
#
# Wrapped by pdg at hpcupt1 on Thu Sep  8 10:16:33 1988
#
# This archive contains:
#	HP_QuietJet	
#

LANG=""; export LANG

echo x - HP_QuietJet
cat >HP_QuietJet <<'@EOF'
PrtDef HP_QuietJet "Hewlett Packard Co"
0
Quick 96 96 768 0 1 0 8 0
13   1B 25 41   1B 2A 74 39 36 52   1B 2A 72 41
6    1B 2A 62 39 36 57
0
0
8    1B 2A 72 42   1B 25 40   0C
Draft 192 96 1536 0 1 0 8 0
15   1B 25 41   1B 2A 72 31 32 39 30 53   1B 2A 72 41
7    1B 2A 62 31 39 32 57
0
0
8    1B 2A 72 42   1B 25 40   0C
Final 192 192 1536 0 1 0 8 0
14   1B 25 41   1B 2A 74 31 39 32 52   1B 2A 72 41
7    1B 2A 62 31 39 32 57
0
0
8    1B 2A 72 42   1B 25 40   0C
@EOF

chmod 644 HP_QuietJet

exit 0