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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: OzTeX/Freedom of Press Light/DeskWriter
Summary: Experiences With FOP-Light
Message-ID: <562@newave.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 90 04:17:27 GMT
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Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
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In article <2348@key.COM> jbr@key.com () writes:
> I have just put together the setup OzTeX -> Freedom of Press Light ->
> DeskWriter (with driver version 2).

BTW, I just bought Freedom Of The Press Light based upon the net
discussion a few weeks back. Running on an Epson EPL-6000, it seems
to work really well, and the output quality is much better than
the MacPrint 1.2 driver (in LaserJet emulation mode).

Only drawback is that I have to break down an buy a meg of RAM for
the printer.  It occasionally gives me a memory error in high definition
mode about 3/4 of the way down the page.

The automatic printing is a bit of a kluge--you have to fool the Chooser
into thinking that you have an AppleTalk LaserWriter.  And since the
EPL-6000 driver only works with the modem port, AppleTalk usage is out
(I don't need AppleTalk, but some users might).

I printed a few things using Command-K, and a few more things that I
saved from comp.lang.postscript, and everything seemed to print as
expected.  Most files took about 1.5 minutes to print (using a IIsi),
although a few of the small examples printed in 20 seconds and one example
with lots of fonts seemed to take about 5 minutes for the first page.

If you like to hack around with postscript and occasionally want to
print very high quality documents, I recomend FOP-Light.  Because of
the speed factor, it wouldn't work well in a production environment.
But for those of us who cannot afford a postscript printer...

-john-

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