Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hp-sde!hpfcdc!bayes From: bayes@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Scott Bayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: HP DeskJet Drivers? Message-ID: <11010028@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 12 Jul 88 19:06:31 GMT References: <729@esl.UUCP> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 9 Re printer communications: HP-PCL is a Printer Control Language, the one that DeskJet, LaserJet et al. use. HP-GL is a vector Graphics Language used by HP's pen plotters (e.g. 7470, 7586, etc). I don't believe DeskJet supports HP-GL: it cannot turn vectors into rasters as far as I know. Scott "written too much code for these puppies" Bayes