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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: V1.3 Printer Drivers
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Date: 31 Mar 88 21:10:41 GMT
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In article <28116@linus.UUCP> sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) writes:
>For those of us who have the gamma versions from ProWrite2.0 or
>Shakespeare, would it be possible for someone to post docs on the new
>capabilities of the 1.3 drivers? 

Well, I have Shakespeare (which is a great program for page layout) and 
have been playing with the 1.3 drivers for both Shakespeare and Deluxe
Paint II. The good news is that from now on there is zero problem in 
getting any deluxe paint picture to print the way you expect it to on
the printer. Using Deluxe Paint in 960 X 600 mono gives me crisp 1:1
printouts on the Epson FX-286e (half page) (full page would be 960 X 1200
which the printer.device can handle but Dpaint can't). I usually do
my own dithering as well. Since the Epson is printing at 240 DPI the actual
pixels being printed are 2 X 2 pixels. And if you choose 'Anti-Aliasing'
it can improve on the diagonals a bit too. Shakespeare gives me the best
combined text and image outputs on my printer. Some of this is attributable
to the new printer device and thus *any* page layout program will benefit.

I think that if you were one of those people complaining that your friends
'Mac' printouts on the ImageWriter looked better than anything you could
do on the Amiga you will be pleasantly suprised at the turn about. You
see the ImageWrite is stuck at 80 DPI or some such number, whereas the
Amiga will print at what ever resolution you can send to the printer. 
In many cases this will be higher than 80 DPI.


--Chuck McManis
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