Re: HP. DJ1200C

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <j382718@pro-nsdapple.cts.com> jamesp@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (James D. Pangrazzi) writes:

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> 
>I called Vitesse and got hold of vice-president of marketing, I think he
>said his name was Jerry something. This is what he had to say: they did
>not have a driver for the 1200C but I might be able to get another driver
>such as the 550C one to work, the GS would not be able to take advantage
>of the printer's capability to print in 600 x 300 DPI.

The DJ1200C is NOT in the same family as the Deskjet's. You can't use a
Deskjet driver period. You can use a Laserjet one or a Paintjet one.
I have the Postscript version that has a parallel and Appletalk interface.
I have been able to use HP LJ3 drivers with the printer to give 300x300
b/w output. I've used Paintjet drivers to give so so colour output, although
I plan to experiment with this. I have been unable to print to it from a
GS using the GS's LW driver for some reason I can't understand, even though
I can from a Mac.
 
The DJC/PS gives really nice text/graphics output. I can print beautiful
256+ colour pictures from an Amiga using a driver for the 1200C, and also
from the NeXT using a PPD and uPrint. Also the Mac/PC output is very nice.
> 
>I called Tony Diaz at Alltech and he said that Bill Hineman could make a
>printer driver for any printer if he had the printer for a week. He then
>would add it to the Harmonie collection. When I asked if the GS would be
>able to take advantage of the printer's capability to print 600 x 300 DPI,
>and what I was told he said he would have to consult with Bill Hineman and
>get back to me. We haven't heard anything yet.

It shouldn't be that hard to make the driver. Studio for the Amiga was
upgraded a very short time after the 1200C came out.
> 
>The cheapest street price I've seen so far is $1249. I have not checked my
>educational sources yet. One other thing, I am not interested in the Adobe
>font cart. For the price Truetype is good enough for me.

The Deskjet1200C/PS uses Postscript Level2, so that wouldn't do you any 
good with the GS. What you need would be a Laserjet driver and a native
1200C driver.
 
I might point out that I do not have a serial port on mine, but that may 
be different with the 1200C.

Hope this helps.
> 
>Once again I would appricate any information on this printer and it's
>capabilities with the GS.         Jim


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