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From: langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: LBP-SX: write black or white?
Message-ID: <1453@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Date: 24 Jan 88 23:07:56 GMT
References: <661@noao.UUCP>
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore Ca
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Summary: let's always announce whether printers are write black or white

In article <661@noao.UUCP>, grandi@noao.arizona.edu (Steve Grandi) writes:
> Is the Canon LBP-SX laser printer engine (used in the newly announced Apple
> Laserwriter IIs) a write-black engine (like the engine in the Laserwriter)
> or a write-white engine?

Since small marks, including parts of characters, come out differently on
write-black and write-white, I think descriptions of printers should always
say which they are. But this information is seldom given.
Since I am tooled up for write-black, a write-white printer is a non-starter.
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