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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver
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Subject: Re:  Laser Stun
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Date: Wed, 29-May-85 00:22:57 EDT
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From: mtu!karl@Glacier (Karl Ottenstein)

From postnews Fri May 24 19:05:43 1985
Subject: Re: Laser Stun
Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers
References: <7824@Glacier.ARPA>

> The Wall Street Journal of Thursday, May 23, has a full page ad
> on page 36 with the headline:
> "Set your laser on stun."
> And then goes on to recommend the "knock 'em dead" qualities
> of the HP Laserjet and Microsoft Word, showing an example of a
> page printed on the Laserjet. 
> 
> Study of the typography of the ad reveals several interesting facts:
> 
> 2) The copy on the laser printed page is set mostly in the Timsrmn
> variant of Times Roman available on the Laserjet. The letterspacing
> is rather loose...

I saw this ad too:  my reaction was that the letterspacing was worse
than loose...it was terrible.  There have been complaints here about
the LaserWriter/PostScript producing text where letters touch one another.
I have been observing such text for some time now and have not seen this
occurence...everything I have seen is gorgeous.  The HP print sample in
the ad has the opposite problem:  the letters are so far apart that the
words don't look like words!


		Karl Ottenstein
		Michigan Technological University
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