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From: derek@leah.Albany.Edu (Derek L. / MacLover)
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Subject: Re: PageMaker, Quark XPress, & Print Shops
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Date: 18 Jul 90 05:13:24 GMT
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From kucharsk@number6.Solbourne.COM (William Kucharski) come these immortal words:
>Linotronic PostScript RIPs have some notorious bugs in them, and of course
>when you have a program with more control it's more likely to use some
>"obtuse" features which then exercise RIP bugs.

	From personal experience I've found Linotronics to be slower,
buggier and harder to control than their Compugraphic counterparts.
Admittedly, my experience is limited, but it does go back to regularly
using a phototypsetter (that is, a keyboard input using typesetting codes,
exposure device and developer) which gave more reliable and better-looking
output than Word does [semi :-) ].  I've been amazed at what the newer Agfa
CGs with PostScript can do.  I have a strong feeling that they're more
expensive than the Linotronics, but I'm not in the market right now so I
haven't paid much attention... :-)

	Now, if you want to go way back I used to use real lead...

>| Internet:   kucharsk@Solbourne.COM	      |	William Kucharski             |

						Derek L.
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