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From: shrinkit@Apple.COM (Andrew Nicholas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: StyleWriter printer
Message-ID: <51374@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 91 09:37:04 GMT
References: <5675@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <51273@apple.Apple.COM> <1991Apr9.071355.7799@incom.incom.de>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Apr9.071355.7799@incom.incom.de> spock@incom.incom.de (Martin Georg) writes:

>>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???

Yes.  That means *no built in true-type* -- the image is rendered in the host
(in this case a mac) and then sent to the printer.  The StyleWriter itself
doesn't know squat about what a "true-type" font is.  It just prints the
bitmaps from the host.

>Martin Georg

andy

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