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From: BEC.SHAPIN@USC-ECL.ARPA (Ted Shapin)
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: QMS KISS bad Epson emulation
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 16:59:40 EDT
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I had the opportunity to try a QMS KISS printer for a few days.

It has errors in its codes that emulate an Epson.  QMS did
not send the proper codes for superscript and subscript.  I
sent them documentation of this and they will probably fix it,
although the printer does this by moving the baseline and
using the same size font character for normal print.

Since I had an Epson driver for TeX DVI files, I tried using
KISS with that.  It failed completely on quad density.  When
I sent a dump to QMS on this, they said they did not have a
large enough buffer for quad density.  I tried draft mode at
the lower density.  This failed too, producing part of the line
offset to the right half a page.

There are inherent problems in trying to convert a 300 dpi printer
to the 120 which the KISS is supposed to handle.  Besides the
graphics being compressed horizontally, when spaces are mixed with
graphics the horizontal position is off.

Ted.
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