Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!tut!santra!s29749s From: s29749s@saha.hut.fi (Olli Johannes Arnberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: A free HP DeskJet driver Message-ID: Date: 22 Apr 89 09:04:29 GMT Sender: news@santra.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Helsinki University of Technology Lines: 72 We have made a Macintosh printer driver for the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet. The driver can use the DeskJet's great 300 dpi graphics. It makes the DeskJet a QuickDraw printer, with features and print quality resembling those of the LaserWriter IISC. For faster output lower resolutions (75, 100 or 150 dpi) can be selected. Program listings and other text-only documents can be printed with the draft option, which uses normal text printing (120 cps). Our driver implements the standard Macintosh printer interface. Those programs that are cleanly written work well. Programs that do things their own way may cause problems (includes everything from Microsoft and some other stubborn PC lookalike programs from various Boring software companies). These is another program for printing the manuals: BatchPrint. You can make a spool file with our printer driver and print it with any printer you choose afterwards. That means you don't have to have the original program. Programs we have tested (and work with expected results): MacDraw, MacDraw II, MacWrite, MacProject, MacProject II, WriteNow, FullWrite Professional, Lightspeed C, PageMaker 3.0, SuperPaint, CricketGraph, CricketDraw, Canvas, ReadySetGo 4.0, WordPerfect, FzzPlot, PCB Design, Expressionist, Stella, More, Professional Composer, etc. Programs, that have some problems (usually they can do at least some kind of printing): Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 3.0, MacPaint 1.5, PageMaker 2.x, Aldus FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, ImageStudio, MPW, MathWriter, FullPaint, FileMaker See our manual for further details how to print with these. Programs, that do not work: HyperCard, Turbo Pascal The driver itself, accompanied by sources and an extensive manual, is available via anonymous ftp from kampi.hut.fi (internet: 128.214.3.9). The directory is "/pub/HPDJ". The whole package will also be posted to comp.binaries.mac (binaries only) and comp.sources.mac (sources only). The sizes are (approximately): The Driver 42 kB The Manual (spooled) 244 kB (original) 191 kB The Sources 184 kB BatchPrint 29 kB The Manual (spooled) 127 kB (original) 94 kB The Sources 71 kB These sizes are non-compresssed. Compressing made them a little bit smaller. We arranged them to eight files. Driver/Application contains the actual thing (and its copyright notice). Sources contain the obvious thing. Manuals come in two different versions: if you have WriteNow, take the "normal" manual; otherwise the SpooledManual. BatchPrintApplication.Hqx HPDJDriver.Hqx BatchPrintManual.Hqx HPDJManual.Hqx BatchPrintSources.Hqx HPDJSources.Hqx BatchPrintSpooledManual.Hqx HPDJSpooledManual.Hqx Have fun, Ari Mujunen Olli Arnberg s29851c@taltta.hut.fi s29749s@saha.hut.fi Bug raports to: hpdj-bugs@hut.fi