Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers

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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