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From: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Write white vs. write black laser printers
Message-ID: <564@sas.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jun 88 15:43:52 GMT
References: <2713@ttidca.TTI.COM> <379@piring.cwi.nl>
Reply-To: bts@sas.UUCP (Brian T. Schellenberger)
Organization: SAS Institute Inc, Cary NC
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Not only PostScript output looks better in write-black.  The TeX METAFONT
fonts tend to, as well.  Even fonts that are built-in look much better on
out write-black LaserJets and LaserWriters than our write-white Imagen.

I personally suspect that this may be because writing was developed on
write-black systems.  Pen and ink is write-black; so is traditional
printing and the Linotype process.  Is offset printing more analogous to
write-white or write-black?
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