Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!wd0gol!newave!john From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: give me solid facts: why is the mac better than MeSsy DOS/WINDOWS Message-ID: <681@newave.UUCP> Date: 3 Mar 91 18:41:55 GMT References: <1991Feb28.015446.16531@eng.ufl.edu> <97235@unix.cis.pitt.edu> <1991Mar1.193406.22014@eng.ufl.edu> Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III) Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN Lines: 18 In article francis@uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke) writes: > A printer that wasn't intended for a Mac is a problem, of course; but > there's no way around that: Macs need to put out their graphics info, > and there has to be *something* to interpret all that stuff. Between the Grapler, MacPrint, and one of the PostScript programs (like Freedom Of The Press), I doubt that a printer exists that cannot be used with the Mac. Of course, some printers will be able to exploit the graphics of the Mac better than others, but even a lowly ASCII printer can be used with text processing tools. -john- -- =============================================================================== John A. Weeks III (612) 942-6969 john@newave.mn.org NeWave Communications ...uunet!rosevax!tcnet!wd0gol!newave!john ===============================================================================