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From: dad@mit-vax.UUCP (David Duff)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: RBidirectional Imagewriter Printing
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Date: Thu, 24-Apr-86 10:16:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 24 10:16:04 1986
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Summary: How do you make the Imagewriter print in both directions?

I think I remember reading somewhere that it was possible to make the
imagewriter print in both directions in "faster" mode, or whatever the
middle of the three quality settings is called.  It had something to
do with option or cmd key clicks on the buttons or the OK box.  I have
experimented a little and can't make it happen.  Has anyone been
successful at this?   If so, what driver are you using?

Currently, my imagewriter wastes half of its time moving across the
page without printing anything.  I'm not sure why the driver was
written this way, since I seem to remember that bidirectional printing
is used in high quality mode.  One guess is that the slight
misalignment of dots caused by  printing in both directions looks bad
in "medium" quality mode, bbut is ok for high quality mode, were
characters are filled in more.  Just a guess.