Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!strobl From: strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: Windows/Mac flame war fuel Message-ID: <3115@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 16 Jul 90 21:45:24 GMT References: <8974@goofy.Apple.COM> <2988@gmdzi.UUCP> <1990Jul5.132722.24100@eng.umd.edu> <3044@gmdzi.UUCP> <9690.26946a19@amherst.bitnet> Organization: GMD, Sankt Augustin, F. R. Germany Lines: 62 amherasimchu@amherst.bitnet writes: >In article <3044@gmdzi.UUCP>, strobl@gmdzi.UUCP (Wolfgang Strobl) writes: >> >> 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. So what? Right now, I have all the fonts on my printer, where they belong. I have two printer drivers installed, one for Postscript, one for the DeskJet. I told the Postscript driver that I have/use a QMS PS-810, and I told the DeskJet driver that I have the R and the T cardridge. I did this once, during installation of Windows 3. I have selected the DeskJet as the system default printer, so everything goes to the DeskJet by default, and all applications know that the default printer has Helvetica and TmsRmn in all sizes between 4pt and 14pt. Occasionally I want to include a picture into a TeX document, by using the ability of our TeX drivers on the MVS mainframe to insert EPS pictures. Because the Postscript driver is already configured for EPS output and for printing to a file, all I have to do is to switch printers and print. >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. Nice, but what is different to the way it is done under Windows? >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.) Sure, cartridges are archaic. But they are fast and cheap. I really don't know why they should be a pain to use. As long as I use similar fonts, I can switch between many very different printers just by choosing the one I want to use, under Windows. And, yes, I can use all the fonts of all the cartridges which fit into my DeskJet at the same time, on the same page. (I haven't tried that, but there is no obvious technical limit here, and I wouldn't want to do it, anyway). >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. I would like to know how fast the DeskWriter is compared to the DeskJet. Wolfgang Strobl #include