Xref: utzoo comp.periphs.printers:519 comp.lang.postscript:6525 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!noao!amethyst!rsm From: rsm@math.arizona.edu (Robert S. Maier) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers,comp.lang.postscript Subject: Laserjet III rasterization of PostScript? Message-ID: Date: 29 Oct 90 03:45:19 GMT Followup-To: comp.periphs.printers Organization: University of Arizona Mathematics Department Lines: 19 I'm thinking of buying a HP Laserjet III. HP makes much, in its advertising, of the Laserjet III's new rasterization technology: the printer's resolution is only 300 dpi, but it allegedly scales the size of dots as needed to improve the appearance of the printed page. I'm a bit skeptical of that, because I plan on printing nothing but PostScript. That means I'll be plugging in a PostScript cartridge (HP's, or the PacificPage cartridge, or ...). Do available PostScript cartridges actually support the new rasterization scheme? If I print text in Times-Roman, say, will the printed dots actually be scaled in size to improve the appearance of the character outlines? If so, will this be true of all cartridges, even third-party ones? -- Robert S. Maier | Internet: rsm@math.arizona.edu Dept. of Math. | UUCP: uunet!arizona!amethyst!rsm Univ. of Arizona | Bitnet: maier@arizrvax Tucson, AZ 85721 | FAX: +1 602 621 8322 U.S.A. | Voice(POTS): +1 602 621 6893 / +1 602 621 2617