Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 18:01:52 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: "Paul F. Werkowski" <pw@snoopy.MV.COM> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950402175832.24501i-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504022137.RAA08732@snoopy.mv.com>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Paul F. Werkowski wrote: > >>>>> "-Vince-" == -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> writes: > > > -Vince-> Hmmm, how is the 540's print quality compared to the > -Vince-> 560C and also is it better than the 520? > > I haven't seen those at all. I can say that printing .tex > files via dvips results in quality as good as that > from a $1500 DEC postscript laser printer (model 5100?) > but maybe not as fast. Two-up listings are also pretty good > with just a bit of quantization on the teeny letters. > Hmmm, the 560C costs $200 more than the 540 and is the printer that has both the color and black cartridge in at the same time... > I also tried some of the color postscript files in the > ghostscript examples area: pretty nice for the price. > This mornings newpaper had an article on paper for jet > printers and said that the really high quality paper > makes a huge difference in color print quality. I'm using > medium grade Hammermill Jetprint (about $7/500). > Hmmm, somehow no matter what paper I use, the ink always bleed except when I print the postscript graphics files... Do you actually mean that the Jetprint is a medium grade paper or do they have different grades of Hammermill Jetprint? Have you tried the Mead Inkjet paper? That paper didn't seem to make any difference but the Jetprint seems to be good except the paper is kind of hard to fold. > Paul > Cheers, Vince vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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