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From: khl@doc.ic.ac.uk (Kang Ho Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: EpsonQ on Amiga and A-Max
Keywords: Epson compatible, Panasonic, PenPal, A-Max
Message-ID: <2630@gould.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Dec 90 12:56:46 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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Hi,
   I have recently purchased a Panasoinc 1124, which is compatible with Epson
LQ2500 according to the manual. First of all, let me say I am fairly satisfied
with its output. My first disappointment came when I tried to use it in A-Max,
the ImageWriter emulation provided by Readysoft is next to useless with its
weird aspect ratio. Before I had a printer, I used to bring all my work back
to my Mac at college to print, now that I have one, I would like to know if
anyone actually using one of the third party Epson drivers on thier A-Max. I
remembered there was a mention of drivers by a company called GDT Softworks
Inc. in the A-max manual, anyone using/tried that?
   My second disappointment came when I tried printing from PenPal. I used
letter quality throughout the session. When I tried to print a document using
printer font option, I lost the WYSIWYG feature of PenPal. Fair enough I
thought, I'll just use the Amiga font option. The printing speed was so low
that I almost fell asleep ( if not for the loud printing noise ) waiting for
it to print one page. What's more, the fonts were so chunky that it's not even
fit for my listing output. Am I doing something wrong here or what? What I
think will be useful is a screen version of the printer fonts ( especially the
proportional spacing font BOLD PS ).
   Please send me any advice/tips/ideas ( especially for A-max ) that you
think are of help to me.


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 Kang Ho LEE                       email  : khl@doc.ic.ac.uk               
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