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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Driving an HP 850C printer
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 02:17:15 GMT
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- Message-ID: <4382.6625T90T357@ci.educ.lu>
- References: <john.07z4@puriri.southern.co.nz>
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- On 19-Feb-96 09:02:21, John McClintock (john@puriri.southern.co.nz) wrote to All
- () about Driving an HP 850C printer (<john.07z4@puriri.southern.co.nz>):
-
- Hi John
-
- >I am considering buying an HP DeskJet 850C colour printer to be used
- >with an Amiga and Emplant and am wondering about printer drivers on
- >the Amiga side.
-
- I do have AMIGAs, EMPLANT deluxe and the HP 850C printer!
- I do use TurboPrint 4.x (4.1 is the most recent) from the German IrseeSoft
- developer. The output are great! Even with 600x600dpi in bw mode. No more
- stripes.
- Though I think the same output is possible with Studio II.
-
-
- >I am looking for any information or experience people have with
- >respect to using the HP 850C printer with older HP printer
- >drivers. For some years I have happily used Post to print postscript
- >output, mostly from PageStream, to a DeskJet 500. I would like to
- >retain this option to use Post, mostly because of the fonts I seem
- >to use and the compatability with output from other postscript
- >printers at work.
-
- I did never use the POST output because it last too long for me! ;-)
-
-
-
- >Will an HP 850C except the output from Postlj and print b&w 300 dpi
- >pages correctly? (I think I use Postlj rather than Postdj because I
- >found it easier to set the page postioning long ago)
-
- Sorry I can't help here!
-
- >Will an HP 850C except the output from something like the PageStream3
- >HP DeskJet 660C driver and print reasonable 300 dpi colour?
-
- Yes! Definetly good! As a teacher I do all my tests and exams with PageStream 3
- and my HP 850 using the included 660C driver in ordered mode as this is the
- fastest though not the best. Floyd Steinberg mode is far better, but my pictures
- don't have so much colours or are not so important so I use the ordered mode.
-
- If I use TurboPrint in conjunction with PageStream the final printout runs
- forever (several hours!!!) That's because PageStream does it's own dithering and
- TurboPrint dithers the output again.
- So if I want cool professional results I do output my doc as 300x300 dpi ILBM-
- IFF file (some megs per page, depends on the number of pix and colors used).
- This IFF file is printed with TurboPrint's PrintManager with super results and
- much faster than PageStream!
- I used this method to do the output for T-shirt-transfers for one of my classes
- and for some birthday cards with 24 bit pix!
-
- BTW all my transparency films (for the overhead projector) are printed this way!
- Brilliant colors with black being true black!
-
- (email me your snail mail address, so I will send you a demo output!)
-
- >At this stage I am not worried on the Amiga side about the better
- >ColourSmart software that HP provide for Compatibles and Macs. I will
-
- Yes! This ColorSmart software looks great! But I think the results with
- TurboPrint 4.x (does use truecolor system) or Studio II are better!!!!
- You do have much more parameters to change, like normal paper, inkjetpaper,
- laser paper, transparencies, premium paper (these do make wonderful posters of
- PHOTO-CD pix). But there are parameters for everything like dithering (several
- 10 possibilities), text output, Gamma correction, colors etc. etc.
- No chance for the ColorSmart System!
-
- >obviously make use of the HP drivers on the Emplant side.
-
- That's the other problem! I have installed the ColorSmart System on my MAC
- partition. But EMPLANT doesn't start anymore as I do have installed the minimal
- version of MAC OS. ;-( Shapeshifter does run from the same partition! with the
- same version of MAC OS. I can run ColorSmart but there is NO output on my
- HP850C.
- The MAC says the printer is NOT present! That's because HP did program the
- Colorsmart system NON-MAC conform!!!! It pokes directly to the printer port!
- I think it won't work with Emplant either!
-
- >Any comments and help would be appreciated. Thanks, John.
-
- my pleasure.
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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