Subject: dvibj-1.0, Canon BJ200 DVI driver
From: [email-masked] (Chris Smith)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 20:36:58 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce

[This driver will print .dvi files produced by TeX on a Canon BJ-200. --mdw]

I have uploaded to

	sunsite:/pub/Linux/apps/tex/dvibj-1.0.tar.gz

(It may still be in incoming, or elsewhere, that dir is just my nomination)

dvibj is a dvi driver for Canon BJ-200 printers.  It does

  1-sided or manual 2-sided
  1-up, 2-up or 4-up
  portrait or landscape
  draft or letter quality (i.e., gray or black)

You should have Metafont installed, then it will generate the fonts
it needs.  It uses the same MakeTeXPK script that dvips does.

It needs 360 dpi fonts, which are not a standard size in common TeX
distributions.  2-up and 4-up output require yet more oddball sizes:

    mode	magstep	   resolution	

    normal        0	      360
    2-up	 -1.5	      274
    4-up	 -3.5	      190	

Keeping up with this by hand would be cumbersome, so get MakeTeXPK
working first.

=== dvibj .vs. dvips | gs ==============================

You must use dvips and gs if the document imports postscript graphics --
dvibj does not do postscript.  dvips also does TPIC and EMTEX and others.

dvibj is faster, produces sharper reduced output, and supports things
like 2-sided 2-up draft mode.

If you use dvips, be sure it is configured correctly for the Bubblejet --
config.ps should include 'D 360' and 'r'.  Distributed configurations
often use 300dpi bitmaps which are then scaled to 360dpi by ghostscript,
which is suboptimal.

(While you're at it, if your xdvi is older than mid-93, get a new one
from say ftp.x.org that does grayscale anti-aliasing.  MUCH superior.

 --- continued in the README