[comp.sys.atari.8bit] Daisy-Dot II and 24-pin printers..

jhs@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (07/08/88)

Speaking of Daisy-Dot II, does anyone know if there is a version for
24-pin printers?  I saw enough using 9-pin emulation on my 24-pin Fujitsu
printer to conclude that I would LOVE to have a version of DDII that could
use the full 24-pin resolution!!!  As it is, the character height is a bit
off, so pagination doesn't work right, and of course the resolution isn't
quite as good as the inherent resolution in the 24-pin printer's internal
Letter Quality font.

Maybe what I should really be asking is if anyone has a font editor for
24-pin printers like the Fujitsu or the Epson LQ-1500/2500?  The two-pass
printing probably isn't really needed, as the logic of the 24-pin printers
accomplishes much the same thing in one pass using the finer pin spacing
instead of carriage motions.

Then again, I'm probably the only kid on my block with a 24-pin printer on
a $70 computer...

-John Sangster / jhs@mitre-bedford.arpa