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From: fiddler@concertina.Eng.Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 7 Nov 90 19:09:27 GMT
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In article <1990Nov7.014246.29367@agate.berkeley.edu>, knrgroup@garnet.berkeley.edu (Raymond group) writes:
> I wrote:
> >>...it [Personal LaserWriter NT] ain't a PostScript printer and you can't do
> >>with it what you could do with a NeXT/NeXT laser printer combo.
> 
> Steve Hix writes:
> >Other than 400dpi output, what
> 
> Let's see.  Rotations and scaling without making your fonts look god-awful
> ugly.  

Where have you been for the past six month (or more)?

I can do all that...have been doing it...for quite a while with a printer
that is most emphatically *not* a PostScript printer.  An HP DeskWriter.
You just need the right software, in this case ATM.  On the right paper, it
is as good as from any 300dpi laserprinter with PostScript.

Only thing that bugs me right now is trying to get grays out of Quark XPress
to the DeskWriter.

> And anything else you can do with a PostScript printer that you 
> can't do with the Mac's Personal LaserWriter NT.  

I think the NT is a PostScript printer...

> There IS a reason you know
> that Apple charges you so much extra for PostScript with its printers.

Mostly to pay off Adobe's licensing fees.  It's not because there's anything
that can be done *only* by PostScript (in principle), though the PS solution
might be the most convenient way to go.

What next?

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