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From: m0154@tnc.UUCP (GUY GARNETT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: Best print quality to dot matrix printers
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Date: 8 Feb 91 15:02:54 GMT
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Pagestream produces excellent quality print to dot-matrix and laser
printers.  The new version (2.1) imports ProWrite format files
directly (you used to have to save as ASCII).

PageStream is a desktop-publishing package; it works as well as the
better packages on other platforms.  Pagestream is *NOT* a word
processor; using it to print out correspondence is (in my opinion) a
waste of time.

Many of the Amiga's graphics wordprocessors print out the documents
using the Preferences printer drivers.  The result is poor to
mediochre quality output.  Pagestream uses its own printer drivers for
supported printers, and produces excellent quality print-outs.  I have
a NEC P7 (24 pin dot-matrix) printer in-house.  Output resolution is
very high (360x360 dpi) and the print is of good quality.  Although
the resulution is very high, it is not laser quality; the mechanics of
the dot-matrix printer limit the output --- the dots are fuzzier and
larger  than a laser printer.

I have used a laser printer with Pagestream (HP LaserJet).  If you
have enough memory in the printer, the output is of good quality. 
Output can also be set to a service bureau in PostScript format for
printing on an imagesetter.  The results are again, very good.

If all you want is better output from your word-processor, PageStream
is overkill.  It has a learning curve, and will cost you a lot of time
(printing 360x360dpi in a 2.5Mb Amiga takes several minutes per page;
longer if the page is more complex.  More RAM would help this
situation, however).  If you need a desktop publisher, it is one of
the best available.

Wildstar