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From: sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The trouble with the Amiga
Message-ID: <194@linus.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Dec-86 16:29:43 EST
Article-I.D.: linus.194
Posted: Sun Dec 14 16:29:43 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Dec-86 05:51:06 EST
Organization: The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
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>  I've found it difficult, or rather virtually impossible to get DPaint to
>  print stuff out that includes text fonts cleanly.  I'm using a Canon 1080a
>  color ink jet, with a driver I found on Compu$erve.
>  . . . . . 
>  What about the NotePad?  I've tried to use it to print out good looking
>  text fonts, and have been pretty disapointed in the output.  It seems that
>  the drivers are too busy re-sampling the image in order to re-size it, to
>  notice that the text comes out looking like sh**.
>
>  Has everyone been having these problems?  Or is it just me with my Canon?

I've had results at least as terrible with my Okimate 20 printer.
Even though it's claimed to be 120H x 144V DPI, most fonts come out
from NotePad looking pretty bad.  

I also have Aegis Impact!.  With that program, not only fonts, but *any*
vertical line segment comes out so thin and faint that it cannot be
seen.  I have to use bold attribute on everything just so it will
print legibly.

I'm curious...How does the Mac get around this problem of "re-sampling
the image in order to re-size it?"  What would happen if I hooked up a
printer to the Mac that had resolution, aspect ratio, etc. that was
very different from an Imagewriter?  Would printing be as impaired as
it seems to be on the Amiga?


Steven Litvintchouk
MITRE Corporation
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