troff and non-laser printers

[Patrick Stickler RC 910]

Does anyone know if troff (and not merely nroff) can be used with
any inexpensive dot-matrix or ink jet printers? The particular
printers that I have in mind are the HP Deskjet or Cannon BJ-10e.
What sort of graphics emulation is necessary to get 'reasonable'
output? Epson FX, IBM Proprinter (X-24E)...? Can the HP Deskjet
emulate an HP Laserjet?

Please no suggestions to use some other typesetting software (e.g. 
TeX). I have to use troff and need some inexpensive way to get
'local' draft copies of documents. I need 'true' troff output - the
differences between nroff and troff are too great.

If anyone has had experience with using troff on a non-laser printer,
I would *very* much appreciate any advice you could offer.

Thanks,

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 Patrick Stickler  Nokia Research Center    stickler at rc.nokia.fi
  (BIX:stickler)   University of Helsinki   stickler at hylka.helsinki.fi
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