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- From: jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jon Mellott)
- Subject: Re: prints from caeds on rs6000 to hp Paintjet prt
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.172201.18719@eng.ufl.edu>
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- Organization: EE Dept at UF
- References: <1992Aug19.131300.4179@seas.gwu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 17:22:01 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug19.131300.4179@seas.gwu.edu>, sohrab@seas.gwu.edu (Sohrab Aidun) writes:
- |>
- |> Hello:
- |>
- |> We have a(n) HP Paintjet XL 300 with a(n) hpgl2 cartridge
- |> connected to our IBM RISC 6000's. We use the Paintjet to get
- |> color prints of objects created with the CAEDS cad package.
- |> The problem is that the quality of the prints is no where close
- |> to what it should be. When we talk to the IBM people they tell
- |> us "HP has to make the proper driver for it", when we talk to
- |> the HP people we get "IBM should make the driver".
- |> Presently we are using the xwd command to create screen dumps.
- |> Converting the xwd format to hpgl format with the help of the pbmplus
- |> package, and then send it to the printer. This makes life hard
- |> on users for they have to change the background color to white, and
- |> by doing this they will not be able to read the numbers off of the
- |> print.
- |>
- I think that the low print quality can be attributed to your use of screen
- dumps. You are dumping at screen resolution and then doing some gymnastics
- to get your hardcopy. Can your program print to an HP7475? With a little
- filtering you should be able to send it to the HPGL/2 equiped PaintJet.
- We've got the Valid (Cadence) EDA software and use an HP PaintJet XL with
- the HPGL/2 cartridge for printing B size schematics. Our platform is Sun.
- We've tell our software to plot to an HP7475 plotter which is then
- filtered and sent to the PaintJet. The filter simply sets the pen width and
- sends a sequence to ensure that the PaintJet is in HPGL/2 mode and not
- PCL mode. Simple enough. I've plotted D-size schematics to B-size paper
- with the PaintJet XL and had nice, readable results. Plus it goes a helluva
- lot faster than our HP DraftPro DXL. I suspect that the results will be
- even nicer for you since the PaintJet XL300 is 300 dpi instead of 180dpi.
-
- Good luck,
- Jon Mellott
- High Speed Digital Architecture Laboratory
- University of Florida
- (jon@alpha.ee.ufl.edu)
-