Driver for HP Design Jet 650C?

GRASS GRASS user
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We are considering purchase of an HP Design Jet 650 C Plotter. Does
anyone have any experience printing directly from GRASS paint
programs to this plotter? Is anyone aware of a GRASS driver for it?
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Maurice

Maurice D. Hall, Graduate Research Associate
Water Quality Modeling
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hall@gpsr.colostate.edu (Maurice Hall) wrote:

We are considering purchase of an HP Design Jet 650 C Plotter. Does
anyone have any experience printing directly from GRASS paint
programs to this plotter? Is anyone aware of a GRASS driver for it?
Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Maurice

Maurice D. Hall, Graduate Research Associate
Water Quality Modeling
**********************************************************************
USDA-ARS-NPA TEL: 970-490-8336
Great Plains Systems Research FAX: 970-490-8310
P.O. Box E INTERNET: hall@gpsr.colostate.edu
301 S. Howes Rm. 215
Fort Collins, CO 80522
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In my experience with HP650C's, they have been purchased with the
postscript option and ps.map can be used to create output in postscript.

maybe someone else has experience creating HPGL output...

Chris (rewerts@diego.cecer.army.mil) USACERL CECER-LL-N, Champaign, IL

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On 11 Sep 1995, Chris Rewerts wrote:

hall@gpsr.colostate.edu (Maurice Hall) wrote:
>We are considering purchase of an HP Design Jet 650 C Plotter. Does
>anyone have any experience printing directly from GRASS paint
>programs to this plotter? Is anyone aware of a GRASS driver for it?
>Any help is appreciated.
>

In my experience with HP650C's, they have been purchased with the
postscript option and ps.map can be used to create output in postscript.

Alternatively, one can use GRASS to produce postscript output, and then
use something like Image Alchemy to convert the postscript to RTL. I have
access to a HP650 with the postscript option and I still use this method,
because it is faster (especially when making multiple copies) and I prefer
the dithering algorithms alchemy uses. This makes the colors a bit more
subdued.

                                                     Dave

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