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From: phil@diablo.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: LaserJet or Postscript printer:  Help me choose
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Date: 18 Nov 88 20:25:36 GMT
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In article <670@hscfvax.harvard.edu> pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
|  What I (believe) that I have noticed is that HP cartridge and soft font
|  sets produce "smoother" output on an HP LaserJet than Postscript on an
|  equivalent (such as Apple NTX) resolution printer.  

How can this be? Don't they use the same Canon marking engine? By the
way, I took a 10X loupe to our Apple LW output and the jaggies I see
are indeed the dots. Our LW is working fine. The jaggies are identical
among the same letters, that is, all the "o"s look alike. 

I hope you're not comparing Helvetica fonts on the LP with Times Roman
fonts on the Apple. 

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Phil Ngai, phil@diablo.amd.com
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