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From: rebel@rpiacm.UUCP (Dave Brennan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Generic Printer Driver Needed
Message-ID: <157@rpiacm.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 1-Mar-87 14:15:53 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar  1 14:15:53 1987
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Keywords: dumb printers
Summary: Downloading fonts to the Imagewriter II

> In article <295@umbc3.UMD.EDU> chris@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Chris Schanzle) writes:
> I have a different Idea for printing quickly on a Mac.
> 
> I was just looking at my ImageWriterII manual, and noticing that it supported
> downloadable fonts.  How about a one font at a time ImageWriterII driver that
> starts by downloading the selected font, then prints all text in that font?
> 
> Anybody know any good reasons why it can't be done?  

The Imagewriter II does have a downloadable font, but I don't think it would
be of too much use in the case of the Mac.  The dimensions of a character in
a downloaded font is at most 14 x 9 pins.  (That's 9 high). With the resolution
of most standard Mac fonts this wouldn't do you much good.  Sure you can do
interesting variations on the standard size, but you are not going to get 
anything better than high-speed quality.