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- From: hal@cs.cornell.edu (Hal Perkins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: HP DeskWriter C, inkjet paper
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.215059.15171@cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 21:50:59 GMT
- Article-I.D.: cs.1992Aug19.215059.15171
- References: <1992Aug15.022326.1016@msus1.msus.edu> <17990013@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>
- Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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- stevewi@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes:
- >FYI, the current HP Journal (August 1992, Vol. 43, Number 4) has an
- >article about the design of the DeskWriter C, DeskJet 500C, the
- >printhead and the ink.
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- >Joe Bob sez... Check it out.
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- In addition to articles about the DeskWriter C hardware, there's also
- a good article about the printer driver. Among other things, it
- describes what the various print options (best vs. normal quality,
- "HP special paper", etc.) actually do. There are also general
- descriptions of the various imaging algorithms used.
-
- On a related note, the December 88 issue of the same journal has an
- article about paper for ink-jet printers. Paper appears to come in
- two basic flavors: high-grade correspondence paper, usually with 25%
- cotton content, and high-speed office copier/duplicator paper. The
- quality of correspondence papers is fairly uniform and DeskWriters
- produce good results with them. Copier/duplicator papers, on the
- other hand, are not consistent at all. Different copier papers give
- very different results depending on how readily ink is absorbed (low
- absorbence gives good results, high gives fuzzy edges and bleeding).
- The quality doesn't depend on things like grain size, weight, etc.
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- Unfortunately they are very good at not naming specific papers as good
- or bad (damn lawyers). I guess all one can do is experiment. Anyone
- know where I can buy a ream of paper with 10 sheets each of the 50
- most popular office papers?
-
- Hal Perkins hal@cs.cornell.edu
- Cornell CS
-