gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) (07/24/89)
----- News saved at 24 Jul 89 14:33:22 GMT I just received my copy of Jetlink Express from GDT yesterday and it works like a charm. Just drag the driver and outline fonts into the system folder, select the driver with the chooser and voila! It seems to work with most all the software packages I've tried (e.g. Word 4, MacDraw II, Superpaint, Cricket-Graph, etc.) The use of the outline fonts is transparent to the user and gives *excellent* results on my Deskjet+. The driver will go to speeds of up to 57K bps, and in the draft mode will try to use the internal font cartridges. The driver also seems to use some techniques to speed up the printing of text and graphics. It certainly is *much* faster than the PD driver I was using before. Summary: One very satisfied customer here. The *only* caveat I found is that text that is rotated is not printed in outline form but in direct pixel format. Still. Not a big problem if your major application is word-processing. Laser-quality output at a non-laser price... gkj... ! email: gkj@uk.ac.ic.doc ! address: ! Dept. of Computing ! Imperial College of Science, Tech. & Med. ! London SW7 2AZ ! U.K. ! tel: 44-1-994-0383 From: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Path: doc.ic.ac.uk!gkj Newsgroups: Comp.mac.sys Subject: RE: Deskjet Printer Drivers Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Keywords: I just received my copy of Jetlink Express from GDT yesterday and it works like a charm. Just drag the driver and outline fonts into the system folder, select the driver with the chooser and voila! It seems to work with most all the software packages I've tried (e.g. Word 4, MacDraw II, Superpaint, Cricket-Graph, etc.) The use of the outline fonts is transparent to the user and gives *excellent* results on my Deskjet+. The driver will go to speeds of up to 57K bps, and in the draft mode will try to use the internal font cartridges. The driver also seems to use some techniques to speed up the printing of text and graphics. It certainly is *much* faster than the PD driver I was using before. Summary: One very satisfied customer here. The *only* caveat I found is that text that is rotated is not printed in outline form but in direct pixel format. Still. Not a big problem if your major application is word-processing. Laser-quality output at a non-laser price... gkj... ! email: gkj@uk.ac.ic.doc ! address: ! Dept. of Computing ! Imperial College of Science, Tech. & Med. ! London SW7 2AZ ! U.K. ! tel: 44-1-994-0383 From: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Path: doc.ic.ac.uk!gkj Newsgroups: Comp.sys.mac Subject: RE: Deskjet Printer Drivers Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Keywords: From: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Path: doc.ic.ac.uk!gkj Newsgroups: Comp.sys.mac Subject: RE: Deskjet Printer Drivers Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Keywords: ----- News saved at 24 Jul 89 14:38:27 GMT I just received my copy of Jetlink Express from GDT yesterday and it works like a charm. Just drag the driver and outline fonts into the system folder, select the driver with the chooser and voila! It seems to work with most all the software packages I've tried (e.g. Word 4, MacDraw II, Superpaint, Cricket-Graph, etc.) The use of the outline fonts is transparent to the user and gives *excellent* results on my Deskjet+. The driver will go to speeds of up to 57K bps, and in the draft mode will try to use the internal font cartridges. The driver comes with Times, Helvetica, Symbol as standard outline fonts (6-127 pt). If a font used in a document isn't included as an outline font, it will try to adapt a version of the screen font. Additional fonts are available from the company. The driver also seems to use some techniques to speed up the printing of text and graphics. It certainly is *much* faster than the PD driver I was using before. Summary: One very satisfied customer here. The *only* caveat I found is that text that is rotated is not printed in outline form but in direct pixel format. Still. Not a big problem if your major application is word-processing. Laser-quality output at a non-laser price... gkj... ! email: gkj@uk.ac.ic.doc ! address: ! Dept. of Computing ! Imperial College of Science, Tech. & Med. ! London SW7 2AZ ! U.K. ! tel: 44-1-994-0383 From: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Path: doc.ic.ac.uk!gkj Newsgroups: Comp.sys.mac Subject: RE: Deskjet Printer Drivers Expires: References: Sender: Reply-To: gkj@doc.ic.ac.uk (Guido K Jouret) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK. Keywords: I just received my copy of Jetlink Express from GDT yesterday and it works like a charm. Just drag the driver and outline fonts into the system folder, select the driver with the chooser and voila! It seems to work with most all the software packages I've tried (e.g. Word 4, MacDraw II, Superpaint, Cricket-Graph, etc.) The use of the outline fonts is transparent to the user and gives *excellent* results on my Deskjet+. The driver will go to speeds of up to 57K bps, and in the draft mode will try to use the internal font cartridges. The driver comes with Times, Helvetica, Symbol as standard outline fonts (6-127 pt). If a font used in a document isn't included as an outline font, it will try to adapt a version of the screen font. Additional fonts are available from the company. The driver also seems to use some techniques to speed up the printing of text and graphics. It certainly is *much* faster than the PD driver I was using before. Summary: One very satisfied customer here. The *only* caveat I found is that text that is rotated is not printed in outline form but in direct pixel format. Still. Not a big problem if your major application is word-processing. Laser-quality output at a non-laser price... gkj... ! email: gkj@uk.ac.ic.doc ! address: ! Dept. of Computing ! Imperial College of Science, Tech. & Med. ! London SW7 2AZ ! U.K. ! tel: 44-1-994-0383