Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!mhuxv!mhuxh!mhuxi!mhuxm!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Re: LaserWriter is wonderful but.... Message-ID: <781@uw-beaver> Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 09:40:13 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.781 Posted: Wed Feb 6 09:40:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Feb-85 03:46:40 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 33 From: Brian Reid There has been a huge amount of traffic in "Laser-lovers@Washington" (fa.laser-lovers to you usenet folks) on the Apple LaserWriter. It would be a shame to have to repeat it here. The observations by Harry Saal are not really true about the LaserWriter. * There is nothing at all in the LaserWriter ROM that decides how to do underlining. Don't be silly. All decisions about where underlines go, and where everything else goes, are made by the application program. This is a bug in MacWrite, not in the LaserWriter. [As an aside, the printer is remarkably bug-free. I have been using one for 6 or 7 months now; it is more free of bugs than any software you have seen in a long time] * The LaserWriter is not optimized for printing bitmap fonts. It is optimized for printing outline fonts. On the other hand, it can print bitmaps as fast as they can be shipped to it; if there are unseemly delays they must also be caused by MacWrite. (I have never used the LaserWriter with MacWrite; I use Scribe or TRoff and also create files for it by hand with Emacs). * The LaserWriter comes with Times Roman, Helvetica and Courier built in, plus a symbol font. These are built in as outlines, not rasters; they work at any size or resolution. * Although the LaserWriter was not engineered to be used 24 hours a day, I know people who have been using them extremely heavily for 6 months now, and they seem to be able to take it very well. At $7K apiece they are practically disposable by comparison with the 30 page/minute heavy-duty printers that cost $50K. But they don't need to be disposed. They really do last.