dundas@hpindwa.cup.hp.com (Alan Dundas) (11/29/90)
Can someone help me? A friend of mine is buying an HP Laserjet IIP, which he wants to connect to his Mac SE. I am really confused with all the options that everyone has mentioned. Some have mentioned that I must get a Postscript cartridge, others have mentioned a software package called MacPrint. Can MacPrint work with fonts like Palentino? Does the HP Laserjet IIP need a font cartridge if MacPrint is used? My friend asked for my help because I work at HP, and use a Mac outside of work. The problem is that I have no experience with HP's peripherals. He has made up his mind to get the Laserjet IIP and I had nothing to do with his decision to purchase this beast. If someone could post or email the HP LJIIP connectivity possibilities, I'd appreciate it. -Alan dundas@hpindwa.cup.hp.com Disclaimer.... Yes I do work for HP, but am not pedeling anything here.
MBDZM@ROHVM1.BITNET (12/04/90)
I am running a MAC classic with an HP IIP. I use MACPRINT to drive the
printer. It works fine, with the following caveats:
1. MACPRINT will use the standard "HARD" fonts in your IIP. They will be
printed at 300 dpi no matter what resolution you print at.
2. MACPRINT will use any of the cartriges that it knows about. The MACPRINT
people are pretty up on things, but it may not support an
off the wall or very new cart.
3. Any font that is not available in the printer is printed by graphing it.
You need enough memory on the printer to support a whole page of graphics.
These means that draft and medium res mode (75/150 dpi) will work with a
stock IIP, but for HIGH res mode, you need 1.5 meg.
4. MAC fonts are 72 dpi. In order to get better looking type macprint will
use a font 4 times the size if one can be found (ie 48 point for 12 point),
if one isn't available, it tries twice and doubles each dot. If one still
isn't found, it uses the screeen font and quadruples each dot (yeech).
The output looks pretty good as long as you follow the rules. Note that using
font "LJ Cur. 12" will print in seconds as you are transmitting a page of ASCII
chars. Using "Cur. 12" will take minutes to print as you are transmitting a
page of 300 dpi graphics.