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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:24:59PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> > Yeah, I've replaced enough carts to know that.  The problem is that they
> > would use composite black when in colour mode...so if you were doing
> > something that required any colour, the whole thing was in colour.  Just
> > because Jay has one black cart in that doesn't mean it will be -used- where
> > black is required in the document, if it's in colour mode.
> 
> I didn't realize that, and it's pretty scary.  Thanks for the heads up.

Assuming I get that far.  I've scanned the signature into a 300dpi 8bit
TIFF,

	http://images.baylink.com/jra/nickolaus-sig.tif

and used imagemagick's convert to switch it to PCL.

Pruning out some PCL commands that are not in a similar .pcl file I
have which prints reliably, I get

	http://images.baylink.com/jra/nickolaus-sig.pcl

or, with -black-threshold 127

	http://images.baylink.com/jra/nickolaus1-sig.pcl

But all I get when I try to print those is a black box.  Looking at
them with vi, if I interpret the polarity of bits in a PCL image
correctly, that's what's *there*, and my intuition about how to
convince convert to get it right doesn't seem productive, obviously.

Jim?  How much is mkpcl?  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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