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

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 03:11P Wed May 16 2007, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> 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?  :-)

The program is $75 US.

I downloaded the two files and WYSIWYG...

All raster rows are "FF's" or black in PCL along with the PCL header
for each row.

I tried to get the .tif, but somehow quick-time was brought into
the process, so I gave up.

I would just work with the MKPCL demo until you can prove, in principle,
that it is going to work. The other thing you could do is print through
a windows printer driver to a file and cut out the part you need.


Jim 
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