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From: mikeh@hplsla.HP.COM (Mike Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Desk Jet Questions
Message-ID: <5440017@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 3 Apr 89 19:34:30 GMT
References: <890327021625.633438@PCO-MULTICS.HBI.HONEYWELL.COM>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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>I am seriously considering buying an HP deskjet and would like to know a
>few things.
>
>Will it handle a screen dump triggered by ALT-HELP?
>

  If you buy the Epson emulation cartridge it should work, but I don't
  think that it would work without the cartridge (DeskJet's native language
  is PCL).  I don't know if the ALT-HELP can have a special printer driver
  associated with it.

>How fast does it print standard ascii (meaning, if I had written a
>                        basic program that sent data to the printer,
>                              how fast would it print)?

  It prints at 240 cps in draft mode (every other dot),
  and 120 cps in letter quality mode.


  The only problem that I have noticed is that the ink is water soluble,
  so don't get your listings wet.  In "normal" use (for me), the ink
  cartridges seem to last about 6 months.

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