rick@pcrat.UUCP (Rick Richardson) (01/31/89)
A potential JetRoff user just reported that the Panasonic
KX-P4450 suffers from the same incomplete cloning that
the Genicom (Centronics) printer does.
This printer cannot handle the incremental downloading of
fonts -- where each glyph is downloaded only upon first
use, and is added to the font which has been downloaded so
far. Incremental download is a huge performance win and
JetRoff has used this capability since day one.
I would add this printer to the list of LaserJet (+ and II)
clones to avoid, if possible. In fact, based upon printing
performance benchmarks and compatibility reports I can only
recommend a genuine HP at this time.
However, I have added a batch font download compile time option
to the Registered Users version of JetRoff. The change is rather
simple to make, but results in much larger output files (since
each font which is used, even for just one character, gets downloaded
in its entirety).
Time permitting, I will try to make a Patch available for the
Shareware version as well.
Also, I urge people who are in the market for an HP compatible
laser printer to check compatiblity using the output of JetRoff
as one test. Even if you do not intend upon using troff to
do your typesetting, the JetRoff output makes an excellent test
suite. The "djet.1" manual page and the "djet.mm" product
announcement call into play some 17 fonts, with 16 used on
one of the pages, line drawing and bitmap graphics. I will
make the HP PCL output of these documents available for
anonymous UUCP, as indicated in my signature.
-Rick
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