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Article #2077Re: troff on non-laser printers
From: Chris Lewis
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 04:30
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 04:30
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In article <294@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) writes: >Does anyone know if troff (and not merely nroff) can be used with >any inexpensive dot-matrix or ink jet printers? The particular >printers that I have in mind are the HP Deskjet or Cannon BJ-10e. >What sort of graphics emulation is necessary to get 'reasonable' >output? Epson FX, IBM Proprinter (X-24E)...? Can the HP Deskjet >emulate an HP Laserjet? My understanding is that a Deskjet is moderately similar to the Laserjet except that font downloading is completely different. It is also my understanding that Psroff will work with *old* (CAT) troff and generate codes that are more-or-less useable on the Deskjet using the HPLJ code, however, the font downloading facilities of psroff won't work. I've finally given up on c.s.u and c.s.m for posting psroff - wait for it in alt.sources. -- Chris Lewis, Phone: TBA UUCP: uunet!utai!lsuc!ecicrl!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-request@eci386) Psroff mailing list (psroff-request@eci386)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!telly!eci386!ecicrl!clewis From: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: troff on non-laser printers Message-ID: <935@ecicrl.UUCP> Date: 14 Nov 90 04:30:17 GMT References: <294@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> Reply-To: clewis@ecicrl.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Elegant Communications Inc., Ottawa, Canada Lines: 23