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We have made a Macintosh printer driver for the Hewlett-Packard DeskJet.

The driver can use the DeskJet's great 300 dpi graphics. It makes the
DeskJet a QuickDraw printer, with features and print quality
resembling those of the LaserWriter IISC.  For faster output lower
resolutions (75, 100 or 150 dpi) can be selected.  Program listings
and other text-only documents can be printed with the draft option,
which uses normal text printing (120 cps).

Our driver implements the standard Macintosh printer interface.  Those
programs that are cleanly written work well.  Programs that do things
their own way may cause problems (includes everything from Microsoft
and some other stubborn PC lookalike programs from various Boring
software companies). 

These is another program for printing the manuals: BatchPrint.  You
can make a spool file with our printer driver and print it with any
printer you choose afterwards.  That means you don't have to have the
original program.

Programs we have tested (and work with expected results):
MacDraw, MacDraw II, MacWrite, MacProject, MacProject II, WriteNow,
FullWrite Professional, Lightspeed C, PageMaker 3.0, SuperPaint,
CricketGraph, CricketDraw, Canvas, ReadySetGo 4.0, WordPerfect,
FzzPlot, PCB Design, Expressionist, Stella, More, Professional
Composer, etc. 

Programs, that have some problems (usually they can do at least some
kind of printing):
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word 3.0, MacPaint 1.5, PageMaker 2.x,
Aldus FreeHand, Adobe Illustrator, ImageStudio, MPW, MathWriter,
FullPaint, FileMaker
See our manual for further details how to print with these.

Programs, that do not work:
HyperCard, Turbo Pascal

The driver itself, accompanied by sources and an extensive manual, is
available via anonymous ftp from kampi.hut.fi (internet: 128.214.3.9).
The directory is "/pub/HPDJ".  The whole package will also be posted
to comp.binaries.mac (binaries only) and comp.sources.mac (sources
only). 

The sizes are (approximately):
  The Driver             42 kB
  The Manual (spooled)  244 kB
             (original) 191 kB
  The Sources           184 kB

  BatchPrint             29 kB
  The Manual (spooled)  127 kB
             (original)  94 kB
  The Sources            71 kB

These sizes are non-compresssed.  Compressing made them a little bit
smaller.  We arranged them to eight files.  Driver/Application
contains the actual thing (and its copyright notice).  Sources contain
the obvious thing.  Manuals come in two different versions: if you have
WriteNow, take the "normal" manual; otherwise the SpooledManual.

   BatchPrintApplication.Hqx       HPDJDriver.Hqx
   BatchPrintManual.Hqx            HPDJManual.Hqx
   BatchPrintSources.Hqx           HPDJSources.Hqx
   BatchPrintSpooledManual.Hqx     HPDJSpooledManual.Hqx

Have fun, 

Ari Mujunen                   Olli Arnberg
s29851c@taltta.hut.fi         s29749s@saha.hut.fi

Bug raports to:
hpdj-bugs@hut.fi