terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) (04/06/89)
Does the HP DeskJet ink-jet printer emulate an EPSON FX? Does this require an extra ROM cartridge? Does the printer emulate the FX graphics mode? Does the printer emulate the 2-pass letter quality mode? Thanks in advance, Eric Terrell (att!druhi!terrell)
thg@hprnd.HP.COM (Terry Gong) (04/11/89)
>/ hprnd:comp.sys.ibm.pc / terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) / 9:22 am Apr 6, 1989 / > >Does the HP DeskJet ink-jet printer emulate an EPSON FX? Does this >require an extra ROM cartridge? > Yes, Yes -- HP 22707E. >Does the printer emulate the FX graphics mode? > Yes >Does the printer emulate the 2-pass letter quality mode? > Don't know. > >Thanks in advance, > > > > > >Eric Terrell (att!druhi!terrell) >----------
Harold_Hank_Hagquist@cup.portal.com (04/11/89)
You need to buy the FX cart. and then the Desk Jet will act just like a FX.
carlson@gateway.mitre.org (Bruce Carlson) (04/11/89)
In article <4120@druhi.ATT.COM> terrell@druhi.ATT.COM (TerrellE) writes: >Does the HP DeskJet ink-jet printer emulate an EPSON FX? Does this >require an extra ROM cartridge? It needs a ROM cartridge to do an epson emulation. I don't know if it does FX, MX or whatever mode. The cartridge is around $100-125 (I think). >Does the printer emulate the FX graphics mode? >Does the printer emulate the 2-pass letter quality mode? The standard graphics on the deskjet are compatible with many, but not, all laserjet drivers. A lot of programs are now providing deskjet drivers. The graphics resolution is 300 dpi and it is far better than any mode on the Epson FX. The standard text mode is letter quality courier 10 pitch, with the option to switch to courier draft and increase the speed. If you are using good quality bond paper (fairly hard finish) the letter quality mode is extremely difficult to distinguish from laserjet courier type. >Eric Terrell (att!druhi!terrell) Apparently HP is bringing out a new deskjet, which is why the deskjet prices have dropped recently. I have seen the original deskjet for about $625, with a $100 HP discount if you send them an old dot matrix printer. $525 is a great price, but I think I'd wait to see what the new deskjet will have. Bruce Carlson
neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM (Dave Neff) (04/12/89)
The HP DeskJet and DeskJet+ have optional Epson FX-80 emulation cartridges. This cartridge emulates ALL epson FX-80 graphics modes. There is no need to emulate "2 pass" letter quality since the DeskJets gives 300 DPI letter quality text in its normal operating mode. The Epson emulation for DeskJet and DeskJet+ is very complete. It will emulate downloaded Epson fonts (although the quality and speed is inferior to the built in fonts) and includes the proportional space, 10 pitch, 12 pitch, and italics fonts of the real FX-80. It does do a few things that the Epson FX-80 cannot do, such as printing super/subscripted proportional space characters and bolding proportional space characters (proportional space characters on the FX-80 are always 2 passed to enhance quality but the DeskJet has good quality on a single pass). Of course the DeskJet printers must "scale" the 72 DPI graphics into 300 DPI which results in "jaggies", but the graphics output is still superior to that of an actual Epson printer due to the darkness of the ink. For best graphics output you should use the DeskJet printer in its native (PCL) mode. By the way, I wrote the Epson emulation cartridges for the DeskJets so I should know :-). Due to different hardware in the DeskJet and DeskJet+ the DeskJet Epson cartridge will not work in the DeskJet+ and the converse is true as well. The DeskJet+ was announced a couple of days ago at Comdex. It generally has 2x "everything" -- twice the internal fonts (including landscape), twice the internal RAM, twice an addressing space (bigger font cartridges and bigger RAM cartridges), twice the paper motor speed (paper pick up time and movement time is doubled), and the CPU is running at twice the frequency. All this results in much faster printing, especially complex text, desktop publishing, and graphics. The DeskJet+ is about 3 times faster than a DeskJet for typical mixed text and graphics desktop publishing and it is 5 times faster for raw graphics (centronics IO should be used for maximum graphics performance). The DeskJet+ is priced at $995 and the DeskJet has been dropped in price to $795. Presently there is no "official" way to upgrade a DeskJet into a DeskJet+. If enough people scream loud enough an upgrade may be made available but it would be rather expensive. As for the "unofficial" way to upgrade a DeskJet to a DeskJet+, well, whats it worth to you :-)? The unofficial upgrade would still be spendy, but if you do the laber it might not be out of line. So far, I lack permission from the "powers on high" to tell people how to upgrade a DeskJet but stay tuned. If you are never going to do graphics or landscape the DeskJet version will save you a bit of money. But if you intend to do landscape printing and/or lots of graphics or mixed text and graphics the DeskJet+ gives much higher performance for the price. Personally, once you see the DeskJet+ I don't see how you could ever buy the DeskJet to save a few bucks. DeskJet+ will be appearing at your dealer by May 1, 1989. We are presently shipping them to dealers and distributors. Dave Neff hp-sdd!hpfcla!hpvcla!neff