huebner@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Robert E. Huebner) (12/08/89)
Warning: Amiga neophyte question! I have just set up my Amiga system and already I have problems! I am running Excellence! Word Processor on a Panasonic KX-P1191 printer using the standard EpsonX(New) driver with the standard Workbench fonts. I have only one thing to say about the output: lousy. I am expecting too much? I know the KXP has a better resolution than an ImageWriter II, but its (IW2) output looks much better to me. Note: I get better results transfering text from Excellence into PageSteam, but that's such a pain. Any ideas? Any better driver available? Or should I exercise my free 90- day trial period on the printer? +-------------------------------------+------------------------------------+ | Robert E. Huebner | "Strange Things Are Afoot... | | huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu | at the Cirle-K." | | Purdue University-Engineering | --Bill & Ted's XLnt Adventure | +-------------------------------------+------------------------------------+
sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) (12/09/89)
In article <8912071904.AA26161@en.ecn.purdue.edu> huebner@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert E. Huebner) writes: > >I am running Excellence! Word Processor on a Panasonic KX-P1191 printer >using the standard EpsonX(New) driver with the standard Workbench fonts. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think that is the problem, The workbench fonts are fine on the screen but when printed out, look blocky and cheap. Sounds like a problem with the fonts not your printer. -- John Sparks | {rutgers|uunet}!ukma!corpane!sparks | D.I.S.K. 24hrs 1200bps ||||||||||||||| sparks@corpane.UUCP | 502/968-5401 thru -5406 I used to be lost in the shuffle. Now I just shuffle along with the lost.
nigel@ultima.cs.uts.oz (Nigel Pearson) (12/09/89)
From article by huebner@EN.ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Robert E. Huebner): > > I am running Excellence! Word Processor on a Panasonic KX-P1191 printer > using the standard EpsonX(New) driver with the standard Workbench fonts. > I have only one thing to say about the output: lousy. > I also had a tough time setting up good output from Excellence. With an EpsonX compatible printer, set the Pitch in Excellence (Page Setup?) to 15cpi, set the Density in Preferences to whatever you want (4-7 is the best at 240x216dpi, but it takes 3 passes) and the Scaling to Integral. That should help, but it will take a while to print. When doing printer dumps from Excellence, the Pitch setting simply controls the number of horizontal pixels per inch of it's ruler. 10 pitch is 80dpi 12 pitch is 96dpi 15 pitch is 120dpi When you specify 15pitch on an integral width page, it creates pages a multiple of 120dpi, which will map nicely (Integrally-no jaggies) onto the printer's horizontal resolution. Note that you could do it by 10pitch with a different page width. eg:- Assume an 8 x 11 inch printer page. 8 inch page x 120dpi = 960 dots = 12 inch page x 80dpi or 6 inch page horizontally x 5.5 inch vertically. Note that by using tricks like this, you can print at very high resolution on a laser printer (ie. Big pages & fonts) Further info about matching printers to graphic dumps can be found in an Amiga Journeyman and Apprentice issue, or you can write to me, care of this television station (er, mail address). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nigel Pearson, overpaid research assistant @ University of Technology, Sydney. "Life? Don't talk to me about life. Here I am, brain the size of a planet ... I've got a pain in all the diodes down my left side. Call this job satisfaction?" - Marvin. ACSnet: nigel@ultima.cs.uts.oz Phone: (+61 2)[OS] (02)[Aust] 281 2552 Surface: Nigel Pearson, Key Centre, UTS, PO Box 123, BROADWAY, Australia, 2007 ______________________________________________________________________________