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From: beamon@ge-dab.GE.COM (Bill Beamon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HP Deskjet
Keywords: graphics, printers,ghostscript
Message-ID: <1840@ge-dab.GE.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 89 22:43:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: GE Simulation & Controls, Daytona Beach, FL
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Question: Has anyone tried using the HP Deskjet with Ghostscript?

I want to do text/graphics/desktop publishing with a less expensive
alternative to the HP LJ-II laser printer. It's for me, so $$$ is
an issue. I hear the graphics rendering with Deskjet is not as good
even at 300 dpi, because it's a serial printer rather than a page
dump type. Cross hatching and shading is done on a line, not page
basis, etc. BUT it gas some good stuff: it's laserjet + compatible
(at level 3 of 8, where the LJ-II is level 5 in HPGL), it has 300 dpi,
it's gonna be around for awhile and it has font download capability
(with the extra 128K memory plug).

Now, if you compose a text/graphics tome using, say, Pagemaker, to
a disk file and you've setup Pagemaker for a Postscript printer, 
then you submit the file with embedded Postscript to Ghostscript
to rasterize it at 300 dpi, WILL IT LOOK BETTER ON THE DESKJET
THAN IF YOU'D IF YOU'D PRINTED IT DIRECTLY FROM PAGEMAKER SET FOR
A NON-POSTSCRIPT PRINTER (LJ TYPE)?

I don't care if it's slow; will it work? Comments, please. Thanks.

Bill Beamon/GE Daytona (904) 239-2605....Disclaimers? Okay, sure...