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From: spock@incom.incom.de (Martin Georg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: StyleWriter printer
Message-ID: <1991Apr9.071355.7799@incom.incom.de>
Date: 9 Apr 91 07:13:55 GMT
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In article <51273@apple.Apple.COM> shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas) writes:
>In article <5675@vela.acs.oakland.edu> mkheintz@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Michael Heintz) writes:
>
>>For your information: the StyleWriter comes with TrueType versions
>>of Times, Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol built-in.
>
>For your information: the StyleWriter comes with an INIT for the MAC which
>does TrueType.  It does -NOT- have -ANY- fonts built-in (ie, in ROM in the
>printer itself).  To drive the printer you send it bitmaps and it prints stuff.
>
Andy, does that mean that the built-in ASIC chip and printer RAM are just there
to handle the data decompression and the high-speed serial interface and that
these parts have nothing to do with printing with truetype fonts???
If this would be right then all we must have is a driver which uses these
new data compression schemes to sent the stylewriter bitmaps ... And, of
course, a high-speed serial port. That gives me some hope that we'll see
a GS/OS driver some day :-).

>andy
>
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Martin Georg
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