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If so, did you know that you can print directly from the PC to the
Paintjet with your existing hardware and software (no more $)?
I recently realized that I could, and (after several tech support rounds
with National Instruments gpib_support@natinst.com) figured out how
to do it. I'd be happy to share the details with anyone interested.
You can print beautiful color graphics from any Windows software, e.g.
Joe Trotter's WinMDI, as well as text (in color!) from Wordperfect, and
from any DOS software which emits plain text or has a Paintjet driver.
Being able to use WinMDI on your B-D data and print the results in color
on your existing Paintjet makes it worth purchasing the GPIB card,
if you can come up with $450 or so. It will also allow you to use MFI.
(HPPCLINK software for both the HP and PC is free, courtesy B-D.)
The HP Deskjet (which would work directly from your PC parallel port) is
really no better for most purposes, and is slower at high resolution
(7 minutes/page). The Paintjet from Windows via IEEE-488 takes 6 minutes
for a full page at 180 dpi (highest Paintjet resolution), and 3 minutes
for 90 dpi which is fine most of the time.
If you want to try out WinMDI or MFI on a PC before you set up the
HP<->PC transfer hardware, the data files in the MFI tutorial can be
used with either. Geoff Osborne's file OSBORNE2.LMD is really pretty
with 3-colors, CD3, CD4, and CD8.
You can get WinMDI by anonymous ftp from flosun.salk.edu in /pub/pc.
MFI and MFITUTOR from flowcyt.bio.umass.edu in /pub/flowcyt/mfi.
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