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From: rminnich@dewey.udel.EDU (Ronald G. Minnich)
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Subject: The trouble with Amiga printers.
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Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 11:01:30 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 18 11:01:30 1986
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I seem to have hit on something with the Amiga printer comment.
If people with Laser printers cannot get decent output then the 
machine has a real problem! One idea I am working on would be to 
have the printer DRIVER pop up a requestor with lots of gadgets. 
One gadget could be the 'go do it and shut up' gadget; others could set the 
various fancy bits to get what you wanted. I think this is more 
consistent with the Amiga philosiphy than to have each application 
decide how to present the user with a printer. Another option would be 
to have the driver give you an idea what the page would look like but
that is one hell of a lot harder, obviously. 

BTW Tom notice that I did not say i bought textcraft, mainly
cause I knew it stunk. And also notice what i did say: The day they
carted the Macs into the stores a random user could draw a picture, 
clip it into a document, and get a pretty little printout on an 
Imagewriter.  From DAY ONE, not one year later. The Amiga can not 
do that now!  If it does not do it soon it is going to lose 
its niche, since color/multitasking are not going to be unique 
for much longer. 

ron