randall@thor.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Randall Rathbun) (04/07/89)
HELP! I was given the wrong information about the type of HP printer that was going to be used with the Personal Composer Music program on an IBM XT compatible. The printer turned out to be a Deskjet, not a Laserjet II. Un- fortunately the music program outputs files in page format not in line format. Does anyone have a program, or can point me to a source, whereby I can print out Postscript page files on the HP Deskjet printer? Your help is greatly appreciated. - Randall Please respond via email. ================================================================= Randall.Rathbun@SanDiego.NCR.COM tele: 619-485-2999/2358/3272 NCR E&M - S.D. Dept 2861 16550 W Bernardo Dr. San Diego 92127
cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) (04/08/89)
In article <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> randall@thor.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Randall Rathbun) writes:
]HELP! I was given the wrong information about the type of HP
]printer
]The printer turned out to be a Deskjet, not a Laserjet II.
]
]Does anyone have a program, or can point me to a source, whereby
]I can print out Postscript page files on the HP Deskjet printer?
Looks like you are way off. Even a Laserjet II cannot print
PostScript without a hardware upgrade. QMS JetScript is what
you need if you have a LJ II. For a Deskjet? Someone else may
be able to help you, not me!
You probably should file for consumer fraud.
Good Luck!
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Daisy Systems Corp, 700B Middlefield Road, Mtn View CA 94039. (415)960-6961mark@kodak.UUCP (Mark Hilliard) (04/12/89)
In article <2908@daisy.UUCP> cplai@daisy.UUCP (Chung-Pang Lai) writes: >In article <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM> randall@thor.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Randall Rathbun) writes: >]The printer turned out to be a Deskjet, not a Laserjet II. I do not know what operating system you are using, but YES, you can print postscript files on the HP Deskjet, in fact, I have been doing it for for several months. For you DOS users, there are 2 programs that have drivers for Deskjet postscript: GOSCRIPT and FREEDOM OF PRESS. I have tested both, and found FOP to be a little better, but it costs 2x as much as GS. Both programs let you use your host processor to run a postscript interpiter. There is a postscript processor board from Everex, called the POST CARD PLUS. I also have this board intstalled. It provides 3 to 5 meg of ram, a 12meg 80186 cpu, and the postscript program. When installed, it becomes a LPT: port, and works GREAT. I think that the board costs around 1.7k now, but it drives SEVERAL printers including the Deskjet.
jimw@guardian.UUCP (Jim Willing) (04/12/89)
In article <1226@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, randall@thor.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Randall Rathbun) writes: > The printer turned out to be a Deskjet, not a Laserjet II. Un- > fortunately the music program outputs files in page format not > in line format. > > Does anyone have a program, or can point me to a source, whereby > I can print out Postscript page files on the HP Deskjet printer? There is a program called 'Go-Script' that runs on PC compatable systems and is a reasonably good Postscript interpreter. I run it with a HP LaserJet II and am quite happy with the results. I believe it also has a driver for the Deskjet as well... Retails for about $200.00 -- usually found at: ..tektronix!tessi!bucket!jimw | Any Vax 750 that is or: .. tessi!bucket!guardian!jimw | to be thrown out in or even CBBS/NW (503) 284-5260 or CIS 73067,2005 | to the cold... but never found where you would expect him to be... | I'll give you a home