BEC.SHAPIN@USC-ECL.ARPA (Ted Shapin) (06/03/86)
I had the opportunity to try a QMS KISS printer for a few days. It has errors in its codes that emulate an Epson. QMS did not send the proper codes for superscript and subscript. I sent them documentation of this and they will probably fix it, although the printer does this by moving the baseline and using the same size font character for normal print. Since I had an Epson driver for TeX DVI files, I tried using KISS with that. It failed completely on quad density. When I sent a dump to QMS on this, they said they did not have a large enough buffer for quad density. I tried draft mode at the lower density. This failed too, producing part of the line offset to the right half a page. There are inherent problems in trying to convert a 300 dpi printer to the 120 which the KISS is supposed to handle. Besides the graphics being compressed horizontally, when spaces are mixed with graphics the horizontal position is off. Ted. -------