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Article #4934Re: HP 5L: printing in Win-OS2
From: elk8929
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:00
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:00
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In <3153301a.621091@news.albany.net>, clint@albany.net (Clint) writes: >dgomez@awinc.com (Derek Gomez) wrote: > >>:>On a related note, I have found the output from the Windows driver to >>:>be far superior to the OS/2 driver from Hewlett-Packard's Website, >>:>especially when it comes to printing graphics. >> >>The OS/2 driver only allows for up to 300 dpi. Hopefully with a little >>pressure from consumers this will be remedied soon. > >Point your Web Browser to http://www.hp.com/cposupport/indexes/lj5.html >and download the latest OS/2 drivers (mp24oen.exe) directly from HP. The >drivers on this page have supported 600 dpi on the 5L for some time now. >The newest ones are dated 3/21/96. Enjoy. These are the drivers I am using. However, I recently did a test: I printed a BMP file from PM-VIEW and the output was terrible. I then converted that file to a Windoze BMP file, imported it into Word and printed there. That output was extremely sharp. But, in any case, my 5L gives much better output than the piece of junk Canon BJ-200 that I had been using. The OS/2 output in particular from the BubbleJet was awful. And so it goes... Edward L. Klein Mechanical Engineering Student Texas A&M Class of 1995 mail://elk8929@acs.tamu.edu http://acs.tamu.edu/~elk8929/ Vote now or Forever hold your peace. Find out about presidential candidates at http://politicsusa.com/PoliticsUSA/campaign96/ Check out Lamar Alexander's home page at www.nashville.net/~lamar
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,b04bda5fbdedbd95 X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: f69fe,b04bda5fbdedbd95 X-Google-Attributes: gidf69fe,public X-Google-Thread: 112d6c,b04bda5fbdedbd95 X-Google-Attributes: gid112d6c,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,b04bda5fbdedbd95 X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public From: elk8929@tamu.edu Subject: Re: HP 5L: printing in Win-OS2 Date: 1996/03/23 Message-ID: <4ivm8u$fch@news.tamu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 143804906 references: <4imnsk$kit@kryten.awinc.com><4imnsk$kit@kryten.awinc.com> <4itj4t$9q6@news.tamu.edu> <4iulp1$23g@kryten.awinc.com> <3153301a.621091@news.albany.net> organization: Texas A&M University, College Station, TX reply-to: elk8929@acs.tamu.edu (ED) newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,bit.listserv.os2-l,comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc