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From: gaynor@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Jim Gaynor)
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Subject: Re: Apple Stylewriter
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Date: 22 Mar 91 13:56:21 GMT
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In article <319.27E6B5E7@busker.fidonet.org> Michael.Jones@f31.n343.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Jones) writes:
>
>Someone back there asked for information about the apple Stylewriter. 
>Well, we just got them in our store (where I work)

	May I say that I'm glad I don't shop at your store, after
reading your "review" of the StyleWriter.

>They are a neat looking "Little" printer, and have a good quality print,
>however, they are only 1/3 page per minute in high quality mode, and are
>a 360dpi printer so ATM doesn't work...

	Actually, it's a 1/2 page per minute, although the processing
time depends on the complexity of the sheet to be printed, and the
speed of your Mac, since all image processing in done on the Mac, not
in the StyleWriter.

	And ATM works nicely.  Or did you bother to test it?  (Please
tell me how being a 360dpi printer would affect a resolution
independent rasterizer?)

>Also.. Apple truetype sucks rocks... In just a quick test with
>pagemaker it looked terrible.  Normal word processors don't look too
>bad tho'.

	Do you have any reasons to back it up?  What kind of test with
PageMaker?  On-screen?  Print?  I'd expect PageMaker to do a poor
print test with TrueType, seeing as Adobe uses their own printer
drivers.

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