Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!rochester!dibble
From: dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: TeX output on HP Deskjet
Message-ID: <1989Apr11.122139.5410@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 11 Apr 89 16:21:38 GMT
Reply-To: dibble@cs.rochester.edu (Peter C. Dibble)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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The HP Deskjet is a {\em dandy} TeX output device.  Obvious changes to
Beebe's dvijet driver produce code that prints slowly but correctly.

It's not that slow---a few minutes per page.  When I start using the
run-length compression that the printer supports, I expect the speed to
roughly double (maybe a minute per page).  The new version of the deskjet
is said to be up to 5 times as fast as the old version for graphics (which
means TeX output).

If I really get picky, I might fuss with the fonts.  Very heavy strokes seem
to come out a little {\em too} thick.

Peter