Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bu.edu!xylogics!transfer!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!umaecs!amh!amherasimchu From: amherasimchu@amherst.bitnet Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Windows/Mac flame war fuel Message-ID: <9690.26946a19@amherst.bitnet> Date: 6 Jul 90 10:38:17 GMT References: <8974@goofy.Apple.COM> <2988@gmdzi.UUCP> <1990Jul5.132722.24100@eng.umd.edu> <3044@gmdzi.UUCP> Lines: 52 In article <3044@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >>What monodirectional links? In any case, it is possible for the users of >>a printer such as the ImageWriter to change the paper size that the >>computer believes is in the printer via the Page Setup dialog box (though >>it defaults to standard 8.5x11 on US systems). Fonts don't matter-- the mac >>nearly always prints in graphics mode (except in 'draft', where it uses the >>printers default font). For postscript printers, there is no monodirectional >>link, so the printer can be queried. > > So there IS a configuration necessary for some printers on the Mac. > > Fonts do matter for me. I own a HP DeskJet printer with two ROM cartriges > which contain fonts. Windows is able to send a mixture of graphics data > and requests to use the ROM fonts to the printer. Using the printer's > ROM fonts is much faster than sending raster data, and it even looks better, > because the internal resolution of the cartridge fonts is higher than > 300x300 dpi. I can print the same document on the QMS Postscript printer > in my office and on the DeskJet at home and get very similar results. Cartridge? I am not going back to using cartridges. Sorry. Right now, I have all the fonts I need on my hard drive. I use my ImageWriter at home for roughs for letters and such. Simply go to the chooser and select it. End of configuration. When I do layouts for brochures, Ads, etc., I simply go to the chooser, select LaserWriter (even though I don't have one at home), and create my project. I can then save the file to PostScript and download to my imagesetter and get 2400 dpi if I like. If they do not have the Fonts I used, not to worry, by creating a PS file, the Mac also downloads Font info I want it to. Cartridge's are archaic. There are inflexible, and a pain to use. By the Mac's configuration, I can go from ImageWriter to LaserWriter to CompuGraphic 9600 all using an SE. The only configuration I have to do is go to the chooser and select my printer. (Also, how many fonts can you use at one time with cartridges? I remember only being able to use up to three or five at once. That's a limitation in itself.) And I think you get comparable results with the DeskJet because HP designed it that way. As a 300dpi non-postscript printer. I know people who have it for the Mac and they too get quality results with it. > > Wolfgang Strobl > #include ________________________ Andrei Herasimchuk Disclaimer: Marketing Director These are my opinions. Please Specular Int'l don't repeat them to my boss 'cause he hears them everyday already! bitnet: amherasimchu@amherst snail: P.O. Box 888, Amherst, MA 01004-0888 413.256.3166