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From: mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacWorld
Summary: Huh?
Keywords: Printers
Message-ID: <501@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 16 Aug 89 20:10:40 GMT
References: <13546@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <13546@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) writes:
[...]

>6) Printers: HP's DeskWriter: outstanding.  Enough has been said in the net
>	about this one already, so I'll mention the other two I saw that I
>	liked.  GCC's WriteImpact: 360x180 dpi resolution with scalable and
                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>	fully rotatable (1 deg increments) outline fonts and a forecoming
>	utility to convert nonencrypted Bitstream and other fonts to the
>	GCC format for $699 list (including Times, Helvetica, Courier, Symbol,
>	Palatino and some other font I can't remember).  Minor registration
>	problems (very hard to notice) which I was told would be solved by
[...]

Really?  What was the print technology on the WriteImpact.  Can I assume from the
name that it's a really high-resolution dot-matrix??  I was all convinced that I
wanted to buy a DeskWriter, but now I'm not so sure...  Anybody else see it?  Any
ideas?  Are you wondering why this message is rambling?  (Simple:  the mailer on
media-lab is stupid.  If you include more text than you compose, it rejects the
message.  So in an attempt (?) to cut down on use of the bandwidth, they actually
increase it when you need to include large files. :-(  Any fixes, anyone?  (I'll
be talking to someone here about it soon, but if there's a command I'm missing,
yell))

--Mike

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