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From: boyle@ANL-MCS.ARPA.UUCP
Newsgroups: mod.computers.laser-printers
Subject: Re:  Texas Instruments OmniLaser printers
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Date: Wed, 11-Feb-87 22:45:15 EST
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In my experience, if you are used to a LaserWriter, the reason characters
look too thin is that the LW is a "write black" engine, where as the "thin"
printer has a "write white" engine.  Since what is written tends to 
spill over, a write black engine makes the characters appear fatter, while
a write white one makes them to thin.  Probably if you look at them with
a magnifying glass, you will see that the OmniLaser characters are
actually sharper, but I prefer the LW ones.

I am told by Adobe that they have tried to devise a way to compensate
for this difference in PostScript output, but have not found a 
satisfactory way to do so.