Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Print Quality Keywords: Desktop Publishing, Word Processing Message-ID: <7311@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 19 Dec 90 00:52:54 GMT References: <47347@apple.Apple.COM> <641@cbmger.UUCP> <47461@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 11 The reason the Apple fonts looks so good on dot matrix printers is simple: they designed the printer and the fonts alike to match the screen. Until very recently the only printers you could really use on the Mac were *their* dot matrix printer and laserprinters. If you have to support a wide variety of printers it's a lot harder to make them all look good, with different print densities and aspect ratios. You pays your money and takes your choice... -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .