Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!guido From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Newsgroups: comp.fonts Subject: Re: Write white vs. write black laser printers Message-ID: <379@piring.cwi.nl> Date: 20 Jun 88 22:32:41 GMT References: <2713@ttidca.TTI.COM> Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) Organization: The Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Amoebae Lines: 10 The industry is certainly aware of this problem (my brother is getting a summer job patching up fonts for a company producing white-writing laser printers), but I believe there are quite a few LW clones on the market which, for obvious reasons, don't address the problem. Perhaps Adobe's PostScript font-producing algorithms are tuned for black-writing, which may be one of the reasons output from black-writing LW's looks better. -- Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net