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From: stephenw@murdu.OZ (Stephen Withers)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Buying: PC vs. the Mac
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Date: Sun, 11-May-86 20:13:55 EDT
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> > The need for letter quality printing, REAL letter quality, not all this
> > "near" letter quality **** that's insufficient for the standards of many
> > editors ...
> 
> This is a minor point, but the idea that "editors" don't like dot-matrix
> printed manuscripts is a myth (or perhaps a rationalization :-)).  Whereas
> it may not be a good idea to submit academic papers printed with a dot
> matrix printer, back when I wrote fairly regularly for Byte and PC Tech
> Journal...

During my (short) academic career, I actually had *more* success with papers
printed by dot-matrix devices that I did with typed or daisy-wheel-printed
material.  Seems to me that what you write is more important than how it's
printed, providing it's clear and meets the editorial requirements (margins,
reference style, etc).

Stephen Withers, 
Microcomputer Support Group, University Computing Services,
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia.

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