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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: TeX fonts at 300dpi
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Date: 16 May 89 02:16:53 GMT
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In article <12670029@eecs.nwu.edu>, gore@eecs.nwu.edu (Jacob Gore) writes:
> Hey, what did you guys use for the 300dpi fonts???

For some reason, dvips isn't setting the printer to 300 dpi, so you
are seeing 400 dpi fonts `scaled' to 300 dpi---predictably, they
come out lousy.

My recommendation is to use 400 dpi wherever possible---it's hardly
slower and the quality improvement is dramatic.

> I printed the same .dvi file . . .
> using . . . 300dpi fonts . . .
> You had to look closely to see the
> difference between its output and the NeXT 400dpi output.

The output I get at 400 dpi on the NeXT laser printer is obviously
superior to 300 dpi output from a LaserWriter or QMS PS-810---perhaps
a printer somewhere needs adjustment.

Thanks for the comments.

-tom