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

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 03:41P Tue May 08 2007, Fairlight wrote:

> 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.

Deskjets that have BW & Color cartridges installed at the same time,
support either composite black(CMY) or true black that uses just the
black cartridge.


Jim 
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