#: 17328 S1/General Interest
    06-Jan-93  02:30:42
Sb: #17322-#Happy New Year
Fm: LARRY OLSON 72227,3467
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,
   You are right, what I meant was a screen print routine. The printer works
great on text copy right out of the box. I will through together a little setup
program that will allow setting different text styles and sizes. That shouldn't
be a problem. I bought a copy of Vprint, but I havn't checked yet about setting
Vprint enviroment up for using some of the printer features.
  I guess the stumbling block I see for a screen print routine is trying to
figure out the correct code to send to the printer, when you get a pixel color
and want to have the printer put the same color on paper. The computer uses RGB
values while the printer uses CMY or CMYK. Its going to take some digging on
this, right now I don't have a clue.
  As far as the print quality, from what I have seen, for text the quality is
as good as a laser printer. The paper used does make a big difference, the
regular photo copy paper is perfectly usable, but if you want the very sharpest
characters,you might need to buy the paper that HP sellls. I picked up some
erasable typing paper and tried it and it comes out beautiful when I ran the
test routine that printed out all the different character styles and sizes. The
only problem with this paper is that it is too thin, you can see through it.
The problem with regular paper is that the ink has a tendency to spread as it
soaks into the paper, but if you use some kind of coated paper, the ink won't
soak in and spread.
   I don't know how long ago you looked at the Deskjet, but this new one, 550c,
has a separate black ink cartridge as well as the color cartridge, which gives
you black printing instead of the dark green they got when they were just
mixing the colors to get black in the earlier models.
   I need to finish up this other program I have been working on, before I
tackle any kind of screen print program, so when I do get heavy into it you can
expect to see alot of dumb questions I'll be sure to be asking.

larry

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