From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Johnston.DLOS@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.works
Title: Re: WORKS Digest V2 #70
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.2493
Posted: Fri Aug  6 07:19:39 1982
Received: Sun Aug  8 07:53:50 1982

Re: detectable resolution after printing.

I have seen, in the earlier days of computer-GENERATED typesetting (i.e., four
years ago), a printed flier from Mergenthaler advertising their digital photocomp
machines.  I don't know what resolution they used, but the rough edges COULD
be detected, even after printing.  They weren't really bad enough to prevent
using the system, but close examination (no magnification, just paper close to
face) revealed the roughness.  This was also from a relatively inexpensive
machine (as such equipment goes) and the fonts were recorded in only one point
size.  The rest were synthesized by software from that one master, which was
loaded from floppy disk.  This may have also had something to do with the
visible rough edges, more than the resolution.

Rick