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From: hcmutt@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Harry Muttart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Amiga text printing
Message-ID: <48480003@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 21:22:26 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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New versions of ProWrite "know" how to use built-in printer fonts, which 
are generally superior to bit-mapped fonts.  ProWrite also has an add-on
product called "ProScript" (or something like it), which will convert output
to Postscript, which will produce nice resolution.

Also, to get the most out of the printer driver, you often need to experiment.
The typical defaults favor speed at the expense of reasonable results.  From
preferences, try selecting the higher resolutions for your printer and integer
scaling.  This alone can make a dramatic improvement (the same letter looks
the same everywhere).  I've also experimented with the smoothing option, which
produces very stylish results with the garnet font at 150 and 300 dpi (on a 
Deskjet).

I do not have a lot to say about extending the printer drivers, though.