[plug] 15 chrs/inch on HP 6P

[Kyle Hargraves]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

> On Thursday 07 February 2002 11:59, Kyle Hargraves wrote:

> > Just wondering if anyone has ever set an HP 6P to a text size other than
> > 10cpi.  Perhaps there is a line in the filters that can be changed .. ?
>
> I've done a smaller font (maybe 17CPI?) on an older HPLJ using hpgl. It's
> different from a dotmatrix in that the letters stay the same shape, so as
> well as more CPI you get more LPI. You'd probably be changing a GhostScript
> option to achieve this as a default. You're using plain lpr, I presume,
> rather than lprNG or CUPS or something like that?

	its on a 7.1 RH box which uses LPRng but lpr -Pqueue is the front
	end.  However, I'd be happy to wrap the command in a gs option
	or have a gs driven filter if it came to that

	The 6P (laser) does recognise PCL

Printing (graphics) from a Windoz box via samba works sweet

cheers, Kyle