jp@lanl-a.UUCP (09/25/84)
I am now the proud owner of an HP Laser Jet Printer. The print quality is fantastic. Before I embark on a modification of Wordstar to let me use micro-justification with it, I thought I would ask if anyone has already tackled the problem. The difficulty is in setting the Horizontal and Vertical motion Indices (HMI & VMI). As configured for daisywheel printers W* sends <esc> <char> <binary number>. The Laser Jet needs <esc> <char> <char> <Ascii representation of a number> <char>. Not only is the numeric info imbedded in the string but it must be converted to ASCII!! The other question of interest is: Has anyone had any experience with the graphics capability of the Laser Jet?? It appears straightforward to use graphics to generate special symbols imbedded in text, but given the limited (59K) memory it does not seem possible to draw line graphs, etc. Of course, bit mapped graphics 8" X 10" X 300 dots X 300 dots/in is 880Kbytes!! Thanks, Jim Potter jp@LANL