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From: carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet printer
Keywords: Need info on performance, limitations, etc.
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Date: 27 Dec 88 13:22:47 GMT
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In article <732@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:

>in the same sense that any dot matrix can do so -- there's no page
>buffer, so your software has to be smart enough to do all your graphics
>in the order they are going to be printed on the page.  There is no
>landscape mode on the DeskJet, unlike the LaserJet.
>{pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer          (Note new path!)
>Clayton E. Cramer

Microsoft Windows can print in landscape mode on the Deskjet, but it 
is quite slow.  Since the Deskjet does not have a landscape mode it
appears that Windows does everything in graphics mode.  This is okay
if you are printing graphics, but it is very slow to print text in
graphics mode.  The first time I tried it I thought Windows had
locked up or the printer had died, but then just as I walked away it started
to print.

HP now offers a landscape cartridge for the Deskjet, but I've never seen or
used one.

Bruce Carlson