#Times fonts on HP DJ500?
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Is there a special command that I need to use to have my HP Deskjet 500 print
text in Times font instead of the default Courier font?
I'm using the word processing program called Scribble!.
<Dave>
David,
You'll have to look in the manual for the DJ and see what esc code is
required to select the internal font you want to use, then look in the
Scribble! manual to see how to assign an ALT-G command to an esc code.
You may also want to take a look at Wolf Faust's CANON STUDIO archive in
either library 8 or 10 of AmigaUser…
No, CanonStudio is for Canon printers! You need Studio for HP. Also, i
don't think you can replace Courier with Times that simple, because
Courier is a mono spaced font while Times is proportional!
Thanks for jumping in with the information Wolf!
Wolf,
Had an opportunity recently to try your CanonStudio. In general we
liked it quite well. There are some areas in which we feel that the
documentation isn't quite clear, or there are features which we could have
really used (we were trying to set up the printer so we could print
multi-column mailing-labels). Where would you like use to send our
complaints/suggestions? Would you rather we just carry on a discussion
here in one of the Amiga Fora? Overall, I'd say a FINE JOB!!!
Vic, if it's of general interest why not discussing it in this forum
(though, I sometimes miss messages with non-interest subjects).
I'm a bit suprised. Multi-Column labels as text or graphic (as CanonStudio
only prints graphics)? Also, which printer are you talking about, HP or
Canon (as CanonStudio is only for Canon printers).
For HP, there are several special label printing programs available.
A nice thing for printing multiple labels is an ARexx program I made for a
company (if you are interested, I can upload the ARexx script… though,
it's pretty customized). They generate the labels style or mailings with
PPage!!! The labels masterpage is than printed by PPage as PostScript. An
ARexx script takes the PostScript code and the addresses (in this case the
address file is generated by SuperBase). And merges them. The main
improvement of this method is, that you can design everything using a
normal program like PPage/PageStream/Final Copy wich are not able to print
mailings/multilabels in a acceptable speed.
With the method of changing the PostScript code, you can print on a
PostScript printer (or a normal dot-matrix printer using post.library) in
the printers speed, even if the letter includes big images!
I personaly use TeX for labels, letters and all that stuff. It's even
possible to write letters and have TeX automaticly generate/print the
labels/envelopes for you. TeX may even collect labels from letters and
print them on multicolumn label paper while the letters are automaticly
printed on normal paper. TeX even switches my LJ's paper bin automaticly
to print envelope and letter. I just spend the last two days to setup
everything… in case someone is interested… the setup is NFSS and
language sensitiv. I'm suprised by the low traffic about TeX on CIS
anyway… everybody I know does use it…