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HP Deskjet 560C Output [message #3774]

Fri, 10 March 1995 15:52

monnier
Messages: 2
Registered: February 1995

Junior Member

Our research group recently purchased a HP Deskjet 560C. We would love to
print some color IDL (on a Sun) plots. It doesn't appear as if IDL supports
color PCL (Printer Control Language used by the Deskjet). Does anyone
have any experience printing out color IDL plots on this printer, or can offer
any general advice?

Thanks..

John

PS. The deskjet is actually being used on an IBM which has a network connection to the SUN. So IDL can create a "plot.PCL" file which we then ftp to the IBM and send to printer port.. This seems to work "ok" for b&w, though some problems persist...

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Re: HP Deskjet 560C Output [message #3838 is a reply to message #3774]

Wed, 15 March 1995 23:20

fskmjm
Messages: 25
Registered: November 1993

Junior Member

In article <3jqon5$sej@agate.berkeley.edu> monnier@physics8 (John D. Monnier) writes:

> Our research group recently purchased a HP Deskjet 560C. We would love to
> print some color IDL (on a Sun) plots. It doesn't appear as if IDL supports
> color PCL (Printer Control Language used by the Deskjet). Does anyone
> have any experience printing out color IDL plots on this printer, or can offer
> any general advice?

> Thanks..

> John

> PS. The deskjet is actually being used on an IBM which has a network connection to the SUN. So IDL can create a "plot.PCL" file which we then ftp to the IBM and send to printer port.. This seems to work "ok" for b&w, though some problems persist...
I have had reasonable success with a 560.
I have to port my colour printouts via Corel Draw in order to print them out.
For simple graphs I tell IDL to use HP plotter commands to create the output,
but things like images I grab the with the Ctrl-G key to Windows
clipboard and then paste into Corel.

It would really be nice if IDL could print colour to something other that PS.

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