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From: anita@brahms.udel.edu (Anita Marie Hoover)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: TeX fonts on Xerox 4050/90 printers and PostScript
Message-ID: <20583@brahms.udel.edu>
Date: 19 Apr 91 12:32:29 GMT
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Organization: University of Delaware
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In article <4918@cernvax.cern.ch> goossens@cernvax.cern.ch (michel goossens) writes:
=>Does anybody have some experience with generating TeX fonts for Xerox 4050/4090
=>printers. We are actually using PostScript output from e.g. dvips, which we 
=>translate into a IMG bitmap for printing on a Xerox 4050/90. Althought the fonts
=>look OK on an Apple Laserwriter (which is, it seems, a write black engine) the fonts
=>come out too faint on the Xerox printers. As we are using the same input file, namely
=>the PostScript file, I guess we have to generate our 800+ fonts once more for
=>that printer. Does somebody have the correct Metafont settings for those devices?
=>

Since you are using Postscript from e.g. dvips, then you are using pk
files.  The pk files you have are generated for a write-black engine.
My understanding is that there are write-white pk files. I was told
these are available through the Unix distribution. This means you would
have to maintain sets of pk files (write-black and write-white).  When
you generate the postscript file you will need to specify which pk
files to use depending on the printer you will be sending the file.
Then you should be able to use your translate program to print to the 
Xerox printers.