[comp.sys.atari.st] WordPerfect/ST and the HP DeskJet+

romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) (05/05/89)

A friend here at the museum would like to get a
DeskJet+/WordPerfect combo for word processing.  Does anyone
have any experience with this on the ST.  Is it preferable to
use the Epson FX emulation cartridge?  How tight is the
proportionally spaced output?

advTHANKSvance

Pavneet Arora
...!utgpu!rom!pavneet

Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queen's Park
Toronto, Ontario
M5S 2C6
(416) 586-5626

bobw@hpsad.HP.COM (Bob Waltenspiel) (05/10/89)

/ hpsad:comp.sys.atari.st / romwa@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Royal Ontario Museum) /  3:11 pm  May  4, 1989 /
>A friend here at the museum would like to get a
>DeskJet+/WordPerfect combo for word processing.  Does anyone
>have any experience with this on the ST.  Is it preferable to
>use the Epson FX emulation cartridge?  How tight is the
>proportionally spaced output?

I used WP/DeskJet just this last weekend to write a ten page term paper
and I was extremely pleased with the outcome.  Several of by fellow students
commented on how nice the print was.

I use the Epson cartridge because it's almost always installed in
my printer (for compatibility with nearly every other piece of Atari
software, Epson is the Atari standard).  WordPerfect thinks it's an
Epson and I've never had a problem.  I'd even go so far as to say it's 
easier then using the DJ without a cartridge (but maybe not a font
flexible).

Personally, I don't care for proportionally spaced print, so I unable
to comment on how well the DJ does.

>advTHANKSvance

Your welcome.

>Pavneet Arora

P.S.  WordPerfect seems to be a memory hog.  Ten pages is all it'll do in
a standard 520ST.  I also recommend a hard disc.  I couldn't stand using
WP before my hard disc arrived.

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