ogasawar@noscvax.UUCP (Todd H. Ogasawara) (01/04/86)
I just placed an order for an HP ThinkJet. The reason I bought it was to have a quiet printer to work with late at night. Most of my software has drivers for the ThinkJet. However, two questions came to mind tonight. [1] I did not see any direct support of the ThinkJet by the STSC APL*PLUS/PC. The User's Guide mentions only Epson support for printing APL characters. Does anyone know if APL*PLUS/PC supports the ThinkJet? I'd hate to make the long distance call to the east coast from Hawaii to get a yes or no answer. Alternatively,.... [2] The mini-review of the HP ThinkJet in the PC Magazine 1984 (not 85) printer review issue mentions that the ThinkJet has a full Epson emulation mode. Yet, the review of the ThinkJet in the Jan85 BYTE review says that the ThinkJet CANNOT emulate the Epson printers. Can someone please tell me which review is correct? I plan on keeping my aging but reliable Epson MX-80 and so will not suffer too much if APL*PLUS/PC cannot dump APL chars to the ThinkJet. However, if the ThinkJet can emulate the Epson, it will save me a bit of cable switching. Thanks in advance for any information you can share with me...todd Todd Ogasawara, Computer Sciences Corp. NOSC-Hawaii Laboratories UUCPmail: {akgua,allegra,decvax,ihnp4,ucbvax}!sdcsvax!noscvax!ogasawar MILNET: OGASAWAR@NOSC *Note. ThinkJet is probably a proprietary term registered by Hewlett-Packard Hope this satisfies the legal types out there :-)
bamford@ihuxw.UUCP (Bamford) (01/07/86)
> [2] The mini-review of the HP ThinkJet in the PC Magazine 1984 (not 85) > printer review issue mentions that the ThinkJet has a full Epson > emulation mode. Yet, the review of the ThinkJet in the Jan85 BYTE > review says that the ThinkJet CANNOT emulate the Epson printers. > Can someone please tell me which review is correct? The ThinkJet emulates most of the functions of the MX-80 (with graphtrax). Graphics it does understand. Italics it does not. Underline it does, bold it does, n/216 " spacing it does not. I am able to use an epson-targetted routine to do a graphics screen dump to my thinkjet and the only problem is that the output is too narrow. Not a serious problem... Furthermore, printing a 100 page document on the HP will not cause permanent hearing loss ( :-) ) -- Harold Bamford AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, Ill (cornet) 8-367-5744 (312) 979-5744 (work)