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Date:      Sun, 18 May 1997 10:35:00 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Teemu Kuusijarvi <k20418@kyyppari.hkkk.fi>
To:        sos@sos.freebsd.dk (Søren Schmidt)
Cc:        chuckr@mat.net, se@FreeBSD.ORG, dave@persprog.com, jgrosch@sirius.com, randyk@ccsales.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What Printer To Get - Postscript
Message-ID:  <199705180735.KAA02245@kyyppari.hkkk.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199705162101.XAA19676@sos.freebsd.dk> from "Søren Schmidt" at May 16, 97 11:01:47 pm

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> In reply to Chuck Robey who wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> No, the 870 uses PCL3+ whatever superset of PCL3 that might be...
> I bought one a month or so ago, and it is endeed a nice printer.
> 
> The only matter I still persue is that it prints much too colored
> images, its like the color saturation has been set too high in
> ghostscript. However it can probably be corrected by fiddeling
> with ghostscript....

You get color output? I have 870Cxi and Aladdin ghostscript here at work
and I have managed to get b/w only. Please tell me what driver you use
and where to get it.

TpK

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