Re: Canon Parallel Printer

[wbaguhn@nyx.cs.du.edu (Will Baguhn)]

In article <treiter-0208961839070001@remote-43.modems.comet.net>,
Toby Reiter <treiter@comet.net> wrote:
>In article <h203410@pro-palmtree.cts.com>, rder@pro-palmtree.cts.com
>(Richard Der) wrote:
>
>>  
>> mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)
>> >I just picked up a Canon BJC-4100 color bubble jet printer, and
>> >have a question about using it with the GS.  The manual says it
>> >can emulate an Epson LQ printer, so if I smacked a parallel printer
>> >interface in slot 6 (changing it to "Your Card") installed the
>> >Freeware Epson LQ driver, could it theoretically work?  How much
>> >are parallel cards these days?
>>  
>> A while ago, I connected a Canon BJ-200, driven with this same driver.
>> It worked great. The print quality, though was not up to par with what
>> the printer could deliver when driven on a PC.
>>  
>> Recently, I got the Harmonie printer drivers from Vitesse. The
>> difference is like night and day: not only does the Epson LQ driver
>> from Harmonie print better than the Freeware one (and faster),
>> the print actually looks darker and sharper than with the standard
>> Windows 3.1 BJ-200 driver! It resembles laser print.
>>  
>> All I can say is, Harmonie is worth it for those looking for the
>> highest quality print (360x360dpi - yep, it really says this in the
>> "print" dialog box).
>Can it do graphics?  Also, how is quality in ProDos 8 programs?
>
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Harmonie is a driver package for GS/OS.  it'll print anything
that needs printing from GS/OS.  Graphics, neat-o fonts, etc.

Quality in ProDOS-8 should be dependent on the software you're printing
from, unless you print to disk and then load the data into a GS/OS application
like Teach or Graphic Writer III.
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