km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) (06/06/91)
We are looking at getting either an HP Paintjet or Paintjet XL for
printing color graphics, probably various screen dumps or other bitmap
files most of the time.
The HP sales people say the only differences between the printers are:
-- paper feeding and size
-- some speed (but not much for large rasters)
-- interface options (serial and parallel for the XL)
However, the xpr man page distinguishes between the printers, and if I
read it correctly limits the PJ to 16 colors a line while not limiting
the PJXL. I also read it as limiting the PJ to 90DPI in color, while
both devices are supposed to be 190DPI. There are some other color
issues as well.
There must be some difference in the printers that the sales people are
not telling me about. Can anyone elaborate?
Incidentally, are there any better alternates in <$2K color printers?
There was an article in inforworld the other week saying that 300dpi
inkjet was about to be released at about the same price. Anyone know
how far this is off?
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Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: Voice (404) 727-7963, FAX 727-5611poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Daniel T. Poirot) (06/13/91)
In article <7603@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >We are looking at getting either an HP Paintjet or Paintjet XL for >printing color graphics, probably various screen dumps or other bitmap >files most of the time. > >Ken Mandelberg | km@mathcs.emory.edu PREFERRED >Emory University | {rutgers,gatech}!emory!km UUCP >Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet NON-DOMAIN BITNET >Atlanta, GA 30322 | Phone: Voice (404) 727-7963, FAX 727-5611 Has anyone found a better program for printing to the PaintJet? We have both the PaintJet and PaintJet XL. We have several of the image format transformation packages, so image format is not a concern. I would really like to see what these printers are capable of putting out. Daniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov NASA JSC "The mind is a terrible thing." ER3 tel: (713)483-8793 Houston, TX 77058 fax: (713)483-3204 -- Daniel Poirot poirot@aio.jsc.nasa.gov NASA JSC "The mind is a terrible thing." ER3 tel: (713)483-8793 Houston, TX 77058 fax: (713)483-3204
se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE (Stefan Esser) (06/17/91)
'ppmtopcl' was posted some weeks ago to 'alt.sources'. It works very well with the PaintJet XL, using the printer's build in dithering algorithms (offering a choice between 'cluster', 'dither' and 'diffuse'). The name is somewhat misleading, since it doesn't work with the older PaintJets or other PCL printers. Since its meant to be a extension of the PBMplus package, it is easy to use with the other pbm tools. I tested it against the screen look of some '.gif's (eg. lighthouse.gif, oldmill.gif) and although the colours didn't always exactly match, the results were quite nice. Stefan -- Stefan Esser, Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Cologne, Germany se@IKP.Uni-Koeln.DE [134.95.192.50]