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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Panasonic printer woes...
Message-ID: <7339@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jul 89 02:19:08 GMT
References: <30045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <30045@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mitchell@janus.berkeley.edu (Evan Mitchell) writes:
$     I have a KXP-1124, which is supposed to be the greatest thing since peanut
$butter, but I can't get those glorious printouts everyone talks about.  I use
$the 1.3 NEC driver, I even read the 1.3 manual.  I just don't know the right
$"settings" to get optimal printouts.  What can I say, I'm a semi-novice :-).
$Can someone, anyone, help me get the most out of this printer?
$
$-Evan

It MIGHT have something to do with the software you're using.  I use the
NEC Pinwriter driver from 1.3.  I do word processing using WordPerfect's
own driver (LQ 2500).  I've done Professional Draw printouts, which are
great.  Most software doesn't re-render for printouts and so you only get
screen resolution no matter what density setting you use.  If you're using
software like this, there's little to be gained by using the higher
densities.

By using INTEGER scaling, you get less "rounding" (a euphemism for the
fact that two `l's side by side might come out looking different; one
thin and the other fat :-( ).  Using Multiply and ratios can yield some
good results.  For those programs that don't use the printer resolution,
the multiply option can use higher resolutions, but your printouts will
get smaller and smaller.  The good news is that more software these days
seems to be taking advantage of printer resolution and not just doing
screen dumps.

	Paul.