From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 16 11:07:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11349 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 16 May 1997 11:07:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA11344; Fri, 16 May 1997 11:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA16747; Fri, 16 May 1997 14:07:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA21043; Fri, 16 May 1997 14:06:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 14:06:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Stefan Esser cc: dave@persprog.com, jgrosch@sirius.com, "Randy A. Katz" , freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What Printer To Get - Postscript In-Reply-To: <19970516180317.27012@x14.mi.uni-koeln.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 May 1997, Stefan Esser wrote: > 3) From what I've heard, there is no documentation about high > resolution graphics commands available for any HP printer. > The printer's manual does not even tell about the graphic > compression modes supported (but you can easily find them > by trying all of them). This limits printing to 300dpi, while > the actual physical resolution (pixel size on paper) appears > to be better, even on plain photo-copier paper (I did not yet > try printing on special color inkjet paper). Stefan, I thought all the inkjets used PCL5 as their language. If that's true, it's completely documented in stuff available from HP. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------