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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Epson Stylus C62, prints at 360 dpi and 180, 90, 60, probably also 720, 
1440 (at least in Windows it does).

Uses 'stcolor' in gs (as does probably the Stylus Color 800).

pbmtoescp2 filename.pbm > /dev/lp0

produced a nice looking printout (after I hit the middle button which was 
flashing and needs to be hit to feed paper each time, and then after 
printing hit the paper button to feed the paper the rest of the way out)
which looks 5/6 (300/360) as wide as the copy I got from using gs with 
this and the HP printer.  So it printed 1:1 pixel (the file was probably 
scanned at 300x300 dpi).

The output from this printer in gs, even though gs had to convert 300 to 
360, looks much clearer than the output on the HP Deskjet 540 but part of 
this may be because we used a refilled cartridge with some streakiness.

I recommend the Epson Stylus Color inkjets for use with netpbm in BL3 if 
you don't mind the smaller output.  I have not tried scaling it up by a 
factor of 6/5 with pnmscale.  I would prefer the 1:1 rather than the 
correct scaled-up size because of increased legibility.

So far the HP Deskjet produced output 4X too wide and the Epson's output 
was 5/6 proper width.  Maybe the laserjet will do it right.

I am starting to see why lazy people just get a bigger hard drive and use 
ghostscript to print.


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