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From: postmaster@mailcom.UUCP (Bernard Aboba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Microsoft cuts corners, actuall
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Date: 25 Aug 88 06:46:10 GMT
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I think that Apple's lack of support for device drivers may be quite 
damaging in the long run.  For example, at work we've put in the usual 
array of Apple DTP equipment, but the Art department refuses to use it: 
it can't support large Calcomp and HP plotters as well as an IBM PS/2 
with MicroDesigner, and the plotters are needed for 80% of their output. 
I have tried several plotting packages such as Plot-It and MacPlot (which 
I couldn't get to work at all), and have not come up with a good 
alternative.  
There are several nice printers, such as the HP PaintJet, that might have 
caught on had drivers been available.  Perhaps the best plotter drivers 
available now are those that come with applications such as Mac Draw II 
and Cricket Graph.  However, Cricket seems to have WITHDRAWN support for 
several devices in revision 1.2.  Unfortunately, I have an Apple plotter 
which seems to no longer be supported.  
I have heard a lot about the Cricket Drivers which are going to be 
released.  Does anyone know what devices are to be supported by these?


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