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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: HP-Laserjet printing problem...
Message-ID: <6890@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 16 May 89 19:14:11 GMT
References: <14869@louie.udel.EDU> <606@lakesys.UUCP> <18028@cisunx.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <18028@cisunx.UUCP> ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy) writes:
>I recently ordered a DeskJet Plus (should be here this week...) and I
>did a little experimenting with the deskjet printer driver, the
>laserjet printer driver, and CMD.  It turns out that everthing I
>"printed" (to a file using CMD) was exactly the same whether I used the
>deskjet driver or the laserjet driver.  What gives?  I know the two
>printers use the same "language", so why are there two different
>drivers?  (They really are different drivers, too.  even different
>sizes.)  They didn't do anything differently in the tests I ran.
>
	The HP_DeskJet has a character set which fully supports the
Amiga extended character set (codes 160 - 255) while the HP_LaserJet
does not.  That is the only major difference.