gaspar@urz.unibas.ch (12/18/90)
Hello DeskJet Experts! I just downloaded a printer driver (dvi-jep) for a HP LaserJet. Because I know that the DeskJet Plus is (almoast) fully compatible with the LJ, I wanted to use it. But the printout was quite funny! Internal fonts were used and the characters were overlapping some- times. After looking at the printout file, I saw that softfonts are being downloaded. In my DeskJet Plus printer manual it says that softfonts can only be used if you have a memory upgrade. Now, before I spend some money on that I want to be sure that this would really solve the problem. Does anybody have a clue? thanks for any help. laci
alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) (12/19/90)
> Internal fonts were used and the characters were overlapping sometimes.
Yup, that sounds like what you'd get if you specify a font that isn't there.
(especially if the one you call for is proportionally spaced)
You need a memory cartridge to use softfonts with the DeskJet.
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208 323-2711____________________________swh@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Steve Harrold) (12/20/90)
>>> You need a memory cartridge to use softfonts with the DeskJet.
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And your driver has to download DeskJet softfonts, not LaserJet softfonts.
The formats appear to be different.neff@hp-vcd.HP.COM (Dave Neff) (12/20/90)
>Because I know that the DeskJet Plus is (almoast) fully compatible >with the LJ, I wanted to use it. But the printout was quite funny! The better way of saying it is the DeskJet Plus is marginally compatible with the LJ. The DeskJet is not a page printer and does not use LaserJet soft (or hard) font formats. Getting RAM for your DJ will not help it one bit in using LaserJet soft fonts. There are LaserJet to DeskJet soft font conversion utilities, but even then the DeskJet spacing will usually be different due to the fact that the DeskJet Plus cannot kern fonts (the DeskJet 500 can, so conversion utilities that support the 500 could preserve LaserJet spacing). So if you bought more memory, your problem would not really be much closer to being solved. You really need a DeskJet Plus specific driver for most all applications. Dave Neff neff@hpvcfs1.HP.COM