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From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LaserWriter IISC Questions
Message-ID: <733@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 Feb 89 17:35:45 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <46700103@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu> mc2818@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Questions about the LaserWriter IISC:
>
>   I am considering buying a IISC, and have a few questions that
>I hope someone can answer.
>
>1) Since the IISC only has 4 built-in fonts, how readily available
>are downloadable fonts esp. made for the laserwriter i.e. not
>bitmapped?

Actually there are no built-in fonts; the IISC fonts live on the Mac.
Apple only provides Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier, and Symbol, but
at MacWorld I talked to two different big-league font suppliers who
are offering a wide range of fonts suitable for the IISC.  To clarify,
these are bitmap fonts, i.e. the IISC does not use PostScript downloadable
fonts.

>2)Are graphics outputs using QuickDraw close to the printers that use
>PostScript?  I mean, I'm not that picky, but if there is a huge difference,
>even I can notice it.

The only huge difference is with the few graphics programs (such as Cricket
Draw and Adobe Illustrator) that only care about PostScript printing and do
72-dpi bitmap output to all non-PostScript printers.  A not-so-huge differ-
ence is that with the IISC you can only get good-looking text in normal,
horizontal orientation -- except with MacDraw II, which renders rotated
text as a 300-dpi bitmap for the IISC, giving a result that is competitive
with PostScript.

>3)Does having more RAM in your computer speed up the printing process?

It sure does.  2 MB is nice, and more is even nicer.  Also, you really
should have a hard disk to use the IISC, because of the space occupied
by the fonts.

David Casseres