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From: jeff@ssc-vax.UUCP (Jeffrey Jongeward)
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Subject: Re: Texas Instruments OmniLaser printers
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In article <8702120345.AA07743@anl-mcs.ARPA>, boyle@ANL-MCS.ARPA (James M. Boyle) writes:
> 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 

I was just looking at the OmniLaser today.  Certain characters in some
TeX fonts come out thin on the OL, but not too bad on the LW.  Also,
Courier resident fonts are not too good on the OL at < 10.0, but ok 
on the LW.  The OL has the blackest black I've seen - much blacker
than the LW.  Resident fonts (except Courier) are very sharp and black 
on the OL.  The "write white" technology may explain why the lightest
3 shades of gray almost don't exist on the OL, but are sharp on the LW.
But I don't understand why Courier is so bad on the OL??