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From: mystone@caen.engin.umich.edu (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Printer questions
Summary: Use double the point size with best Quality print.
Message-ID: <510@dlf074.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 88 17:22:06 GMT
References: <2596@calmasd.GE.COM>
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In article <2596@calmasd.GE.COM>, jnp@calmasd.GE.COM (John Pantone) writes:
> I must be missing something;  The Imagewriter II seems to be able to print
> reasonably nice near-letter-quality in it's "native" mode, but when asked to
> print from MacDraw, MacPaint or MS Word, etc. the quality is really quite
> atrocious. (I realize that it is "drawing" the letters in the latter case,
> and in "native" mode it's using the on-board ROM character generator).
> 

  To get decent quality output on the ImageWriter II when you're printing
with Best Quality mode, make sure that you have a point size double that of
what you acutally use in your application in the System File.  In English,
if you're using 12 point New York to write a paper in MS Word, have both
12 and 24 point NY in the System file.
  What happens is that when you print on the IW II, the ImageWriter driver
will actually use the larger point size, and reduce it by fifty percent when
you select "Best Quality."  In effect, you're gettting twice the resolution
of the font.
  I know that this method will work with programs such as MS Word, and MacDraw,
but I'm not sure what happens in MacPaint, since I believe that handles fonts
as bitmaps, instead of fonts.