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From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: *COMPLETE* Postscript Description
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Message-ID: <17492@rpp386.cactus.org>
Date: 24 Dec 89 18:02:53 GMT
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To my knowlege, the Apple Laserwriter Plus, images the ENTIRE page into
memory, before dumping it to the drum through the laser.  QMS does the
same, Apple Laserwriter does the same, the NTX I think does the same, infact
I know of no 300 dpi lasers that do not build a complete bitmap first.  The
banding is apparantly related to those printers that either use a dot-matrix
mechanical print method, or write directly to film with the laser.
Cheers

Woody