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- From: limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM)
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 05:04:49 GMT
- Subject: Re: HP DJ500 Printer, MS Windows and Plotter fonts (+ Inkjet quality problem)
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- graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au Graeme Gill at Labtam Australia
- writes
-
- | In article limrcd@hpsgm2.sgp.hp.com (Richard LIM)
- | writes:
- | > 1. First of all, the plotter fonts are vector fonts specific
- | > to the plotters. Therefore, the printer driver does not
- | > know how to create them. Hence the DJ500 will substitute
- | > some other font. Likewise, the plotter will substitute
- | > its vector fonts for all other fonts that you might choose!
- |
- | This is demonstratably not true. The driver does know how
- | to print them, it just won't say it does! The procedure
- | is to set up the system with (say) a postscript printer selected
- | as the default printer, create the document in write with (say)
- | the script font (which is a plotter font), and then select print
- | (in write), select printer setup in the print dialog, select
- | HP DJ500 as the printer, and print the document. It will happily
- | print using the plotter font.
- | Try it before saying it doesn't work.
- | The question then, is why won't the HP DJ500 driver admit to being
- | able to print plotter fonts ? Having to switch back and forward between
- | the postscript print driver and the HP DJ500 is most annoying.
-
- OK. You are referring to the plotter/vector font as supplied by
- Windows. These are the lousy fonts that came with Windows 2.x
- God knows who would want to use these fonts nowadays. Anyway,
- Windows 3.1 still have the ability to generate these fonts although
- they ranked pretty low on the preference scale. Especially now that
- TrueType is available.
-
- I was referring to the native plotter fonts inside the plotter.
-
- Actually, you do not need to use the postscript driver to enable those
- vector fonts. All you have to do is to manually type in their names
- (Script, Modern, Roman, etc..) in the font menu. The DJ500 driver will
- print them.
-
- | The HP DJ500 driver seems to have another bug too. It seems to crash
- | if you try and print a picture in the paint program that comes with windows
- | 3.1, if you select landscape mode and printer resolution.
-
- I just printed PAPER.BMP on landscape mode printer resolution on my
- DJ500. No problem. My driver is the Universal Printer DRiver v3.1.2
- for HP DeskJet 500 v2.0 that came with Windows 3.1
-
- | > 2. Canon reduced their spatter by having their print head much
- | > closer to the paper than the DJ (about 3x difference). Try
- | > putting a thicker paper such as envelopes through them.
- |
- | Interesting. The only thing is that as far as I can tell the
- | DJ print head is pivoted so that it actually rests on the paper, the
- | spacing being set by the two "bumps" either side of the ink jet
- | nozzles. This being the case the paper thickness should make no
- | difference to the print head/paper spacing.
-
- If the bumps actually rests on the paper, they would smear the ink
- as the head makes multiples passes across the paper. Besides, I
- make the cartridges here, so I know that they do not do so...
-
- Regards
- Richard Lim "A conclusion is where you get tired of thinking"
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