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I have been happily using emTeX for a couple of months and made the
mistake of recommending it to a colleague who then came to me for help
in getting dvidot working with his HP QuietJet printer. My basic
question is: can someone tell us what the optimum configuration should
be for this printer?

In the printer documentation it says that if you are configuring it to
use with some software and the software gives you a choice of
printers, then you should select the first one that occurs in this
list:

QuietJet
ThinkJet
HP82906
HP2932
IBM Graphics Printer
IBM Proprinter
Epson MX-80 or MX-100
Standard Printer

Because he had downloaded the FX fonts and my printer emulates the
FX-80, we tried pretending it was an FX-80 (not having any idea of the
differences between an FX-80 and an MX-80). The results were not
good. We had two problems. The first was that as the printer made its
passes, sometimes one line would not be in registry with the next, ie,
the top bar of an F wouldn't line up right with the rest of the F.
This seemed intermittent and not so often that you couldn't read the
text, but pretty ugly nonetheless. The second problem was that the
text was squashed in the vertical direction. The aspect ratio was
wrong. The left and right margins were fine, but the top and
bottom margins were too big. This confirmed the distinct impression
that the letters themselves were squished.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tim Sullivan (tims@goshawk.lanl.gov)