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From: pazzani@ics.uci.edu (Michael Pazzani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Bitsmoothing & NeXT Laserwriters for MacPaint
Keywords: relational databases, Reflex, graphical (& statistical) databases
Message-ID: <1989Oct17.220004.350@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 17 Oct 89 22:00:04 GMT
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I'm playing with using a NeXT laserwiter from a MAC the easy, but inelegant 
way-- by getting postscript output (with Command-K), ftp'ing the file to
the Next and printing it.  It works great for a lot of things, but there's
no Bitsmoothing for MacPaint graphics.  300dpi with bitsmoothing looks
better than 400dpi without.  I doubt that NeXT didn't think of bitsmoothing,
so does anyone know of a hack to the LaserPrep file (which appears to make 
explicit checks for the type of printer) to enable bitsmoothing of Mac 
generated postscript on the NeXT laserwriter?

Thanks in Advance,
Mike Pazzani (pazzani@ics.uci.edu)