Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!mandrill!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!decwrl!mejac!gryphon!richard From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Phototypesetter output Keywords: Linotronic, Camera ready copy Message-ID: <4812@gryphon.CTS.COM> Date: 12 Jul 88 07:01:35 GMT Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, Ca. Lines: 64 It was pretty universal. I got 3 suggestions to call Graphics + Plus in Culver City as being a good source of Typesetter output from PostScript in L.A. It's a pretty slick racket. They have a BBS that you call and upload your file. Allegedly it was supposed to ask you a bunch of other things, but all I could get it to do is Log Off or Upload a File. Which is fine. I uploaded the file on a friday night about midnight. I called the next day, about 11 ish. ``Hi. Are you guys open today?'' ``Uhh...no, not really.'' ``Oh. Too bad. I was wondering if I could pick up some output'' ``Oh sure, come on down. I though you wanted something complicated.'' I went down there and sure enough they were closed, and my output was taped to the door in a plastic bag. The artwork I was doing needed (as you may have guessed) legal sized paper. I *of course* wanted 2540 DPI. Their miserable Linotronic 300 **wouldn't do** 2540 DPI on legal paper. ``Why not'' I asked. ``Dunno man, it bombs''. Oh Is this normal ? Is there ANY device that can do 2540 DPI on legal paper ? I opened my package. I looked at it. Sheesh I thought. This is hardly better than the laser output. I can STILL see the dots in the halftones. Until I actually compared the two. The laser output looks like it was done with crayons in comparison. Highly recomended. Unrelated question: I just got a brand factory new toned cartridge and installed it. Changed the fuzzy brush thing too. Now my output doesnt come out as black as it used to for 3/4" solid black squares. They *used* to be pretty much solid black. Now, with this new toner, they're a little light in the middle. Any ideas ? P.S. to Milo. This is your modem talking. -- If you were to flatten out Wales, it would be bigger than England. richard@gryphon.CTS.COM {backbone}!gryphon!richard