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From: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Broken printer.dev?
Message-ID: <6024@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 21 Feb 89 14:51:28 GMT
References: <1899@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1899@tank.uchicago.edu> ed@zaphod.uchicago.edu (Ed Friedman) writes:
>We are looking to buy a custom printer driver for a Shinko color printer.
>The company that makes it claims that they are unable to do smoothing in
>the screendump because of a bug in the 1.3 printer.dev file.  They claim
>that Commodore knows about and have a fix for it but will not release the
>fix.  Does anyone know if such a bug does in fact exist and when a fix
>might be available?
>
	There is in fact a bug in the V1.3 printer.device that only affects
PCC_MULTI_PASS printers (like the Shinko) when smoothing is turned on.
Have the company contact me here at Commodore and we'll see what we can do.

David Berezowski
(215) 431-9100