Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!wanginst!ulowell!dewey.udel.EDU!rminnich From: rminnich@dewey.udel.EDU (Ronald G. Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: The trouble with Amiga printers. Message-ID: <872@ulowell.UUCP> Date: Thu, 18-Dec-86 11:01:30 EST Article-I.D.: ulowell.872 Posted: Thu Dec 18 11:01:30 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Dec-86 02:21:20 EST Sender: page@ulowell.UUCP Organization: University of Delaware Lines: 21 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