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From: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: AmiExpo
Message-ID: <1822@cadovax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Oct-87 04:11:39 EST
Article-I.D.: cadovax.1822
Posted: Sun Oct 25 04:11:39 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Oct-87 04:56:50 EST
References: <605@louie.udel.EDU> <2490@dciem.UUCP> <619@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: keithd@cadovax.UUCP (Keith Doyle)
Organization: Contel Business Systems, Torrance, CA
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In article <619@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
>In article <2490@dciem.UUCP> king@dciem.UUCP (Stephen King) writes:
>>In article <605@louie.udel.EDU> rminnich@udel.EDU (Ron Minnich) writes:
>>>other hand, it was $15 and it works. Sure the output looks like hell
>>>but DPaint is awful too and it costs a lot more. Which led me to 
>>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>I am surprised by this statement. I think DPaint is GREAT! What are you
>>comparing it to?
>>
>>>My wife refused to countenance any money spent on another Amiga
>>>program- she used DPaint too until we realized we could not print.
>>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Actually, this is one issue to which I can agree.  I bought the $199
Cannon inkjet, and the basic output via DPaint does suck.  But it's not
the printers fault, and I don't really think it was DPaint's fault,
it's apparently the fact that C= felt that the way to handle unknown 
resolution printers was to scale bitmaps, and this tends to take forever 
and look like shit.  The MacIntosh seems to get around this somehow, perhaps 
by avoiding the problem by making you buy an Apple approved printer of
a known resolution and making sure all Apple approved printers have
close enough resolution so that they don't have to scale the bitmaps.

Obviously few of you out there have tried to use a 24 pin printer, as
the @Q)*#&%)(* speed of the driver at such resolutions is appalling.
If any of you had been using it in that manner we'd have heard more
flaming.  20-30 minutes for a screen dump!  Bah!  

I finally figured out how to fix the output when using the Canon, but 
it was not particularly straightforward or reasonable to expect a novice 
to figure out.  Some packages out there actually bypass the driver to
get more predictable output, as it reflects on the package itself if
print quality is percieved to be poor (even if it IS possible to get
good output, just novice users can't figure out how).

Keith Doyle
#  {ucbvax,decvax}!trwrb!cadovax!keithd  Contel Business Systems 213-323-8170