Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!eniac.seas.upenn.edu!ranjit From: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: EpsonX Printer Driver Weirdness Message-ID: <6403@netnews.upenn.edu> Date: 29 Nov 88 07:54:53 GMT Sender: news@netnews.upenn.edu Reply-To: ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu.UUCP (Ranjit Bhatnagar) Distribution: na Organization: University of Pennsylvania Lines: 25 I don't know that I want to call this a bug - perhaps it's just a SIDE EFFECT. If you print the picture "Lady" from the Digipaint distribution disk (it's a 320x400 HAM mode monochrome image) as a 3 inch wide image, using halftone shading, under the EpsonX driver in 1.3, then in densities 3, 5, and 6 (the ones which can not print consecutive horizontal dots), her lips vanish. Really. All of the picture comes out beautifully except the chin is washed out, and the lips vanish. My best guess is that the restriction on horizontal dots causes a severe reduction in contrast at the darker gray levels. Thus making these density modes useless for most gray scale dumps as well as for fine detail. Oh well. Someone from Commodore already mentioned that this limitation probably won't be fixed in software because it's not Commodore's problem. Besides, waiting for a six-pass screen dump to finish would cause nervous breakdowns. - Ranjit "Trespassers w" ranjit@eniac.seas.upenn.edu mailrus!eecae!netnews!eniac!... If you throw a rock into the night and something barks, you know you hit a dog.