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From: ca055@unocss.UUCP (David B. Caplinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: 72-dpi gray-scales on 300-dpi LaserWriter!
Summary: True gray-scale via Laser Prep mod?
Message-ID: <220@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 04:13:28 GMT
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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I'm increasingly appaled by 72 dot-per-inch gray-scales when printing
forms and the like on our LaserWriter Plus.  So, I got to thinking (look
out, world!) about it, and I wonder:  Is it possible to make a patch to
the Laser Prep software that will re-define the gray-scales to a 300-dpi
type?  More specifically: has anyone done anything like this?

The theory goes something like this: When the Laser Prep software loads
all of the PostScript macros in, it should be able to include
re-defined macros for the various gray-scales that say, MacPaint (though
I was using SuperPaint for this) -type "standard" (ha) values.  In fact,
I think Don Lancaster wrote an article about something similar to this,
but I never saw it.  (I only heard about it from a friend.)

Any hints about this would probably be appreciated by many more people than
just me!  :-)

-/ Dave Caplinger /-
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