Can I get a DeskJet 842C to sign a letter from filePro?

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At Tue, May 08, 2007 at 03:04:01PM -0400 or thereabouts, 
suspect Jay Ashworth was observed uttering:
> Do the DeskJets speak PCL?  A version new enough to include a color
> image?  (Or, I guess, to take a monochrome bitmap and render it in a
> specified color?)

Depends on the DeskJet.  The ones in the 847 line I -think- did (pretty
sure I actually have one here, just haven't used it in like years).  You
can look that bit up.

But what you'd likely end up doing is printing the entire thing in colour
to get the blue signature, and black would just eat a lot of ink because
it's basically all three colours for any black using the colour cartridge.
TTBOMK, you can't mix/match modes on those.  It's one or the other.  So
it's going to be an ink hog for any such documents.

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