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Subject: Re: LJ+ incompatibility
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Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 06:25:52 EST
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HP has gotten back to me about the LJ - LJ+ incompatibility I reported
earlier (in mixed text and raster data, the raster data is not in quite
the same place on the two printers:  the LJ+ prints it about ten dots
to the right of where it is on the LJ).

HP claims that the problem is in fact a bug in the original LaserJet:
raster data was printed 8 dots to the left of where it should have been.
The LJ+ corrects the bug.  Since our LJ typesetting software is a
commercial package, we've never had cause to investigate exact raster
positioning.

I dunno.  Sure looks to me like the shift is 10 dots, not 8.  And it's
still a very annoying incompatibility.  But I thought I'd pass on the
official explanation.

				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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