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From: mikey@shuksan.UUCP (Mike Fields)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing & the Deskjet
Summary: el cheapo (but good) desk top publisher
Message-ID: <995@shuksan.UUCP>
Date: 29 Nov 88 19:11:17 GMT
References: <1302@psu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: The Boeing Co., BAC MMST, Seattle, WA
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In article <1302@psu-cs.UUCP>, warren@psu-cs.UUCP (Warren Harrison) writes:
> Could anyone suggest a reasonable desktop publishing package that is
> inexpensive (<$200) and will work with my HP DeskJet inkjet printer.
> Also it needs to run on a plain vanilla 286 w/Hercules card, 640K and\
> a 20M hard disk.  Many thanks.
> 
> Warren

While I have not used your particular combination, I believe that 
the PFS First Publisher will do the job for you.  The current release
is 2.0 and is around $80 or so.  It allows you to mix graphics and text
(including flowing the text around the picture), modify and create new
graphics as well as many other features. I know that it supports most
dot matrix printers as well as my Laserjet II so I suspect that it
will also support the deskjet printer.  Not Pagemaker quality but
then not pagemaker price either!!.  PC mag rated the earlier release 
very favorably some time ago and the new release looks even better.
Give it a try.

mikey


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