marvit@hplpm.hpl.hp.com (Peter Marvit) (11/09/90)
I've recently purchased a Hewlett-Packard DeskWriter. While I was able
to make the dvi72im work with my old ImageWriter II (albeit very slowly),
I cannot seem to make it work with the DeskWriter. I am using version
1.8.3 of dvim72 on a MacSE and using the standard 300 dpi PK fonts which
came with OzTeX 1.3. I am interested in hearing directly from others who
have been successful. What settings do you use? Please e-mail me and
I'll summarize.
For general info, OzTeX is the free version of TeX for the Macintosh
(which only has printing options for PostScript printers) and dvim72 is a
DVI printer which works with ImageWriter (and theoretically other
QuickDraw) printers.
-Peter "Want to TeX my Mac" Marvit
: Peter Marvit Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA (415) 857-6646 :
: Internet: <marvit@hplabs.hpl.hp.com> uucp: {any backbone}!hplabs!marvit :rsfinn@athena.mit.edu (Russell S. Finn) (11/15/90)
I have also been having problems getting OzTeX & DVIM72 to print to my
DeskWriter. I've been trying to use the version of DVIM72 that was
distributed with OzTeX 3.0, which is 1.8.1; it acts as though it's
imaging the page correctly, but then prints one blank page for each
page of the document. It also displays a message "magnification 1500"
at the start of the process, but OzTeX believes it's going at
magnification 1000.
I'm pretty sure I've set up DVIM72 correctly to print to a 300 dpi
printer, but given the scanty documentation, it's hard to tell. I'm
currently using a Mac Plus with 2.5 MB RAM, System 6.0.5 (DVIM72 is
getting 1536K under MultiFinder), but I'm about to get a IIsi...
Has anyone had any success printing to a DeskWriter?
-- Russell S. Finn
rsfinn@{athena,lcs}.mit.edu