briand@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Brian D Diehm) (03/27/90)
"I have a little magnifying glass. When I first got my LaserWriter,
I looked at that miraculous 300-dpi output up close. And I looked at
samples of good letterpress printing as well. They looked very much
alike, and lively. Why? Both were imperfect in their letter shapes. The
300-dpi output had a slightly irregular outline due to excess toner
dots and the slight stairstepping of pixels. The metal type impression
had a slight irregular outline due to a squeezing out of ink around
the edges and the feathering of ink in the softer paper's fiber. That's
not what you see if you look at phototype, you just see clean, sharp
edges. Hard, cold---and dull."
-Judith Sutcliffe
Aldus Magazine, Volume I Number 3, March/April 1990
"...It would not surprise me to find in a few years that there are
connoisseurs who collect pages printed on the original LaserWriters
('There was something about the way it laid down that thick layer of toner')."
-Sumner Stone
Print, XLIII:II, March/April 1989
+----------------------------------------------------------+
I I
I Even visionaries have a hard time keeping ahead I
I of pretentiousness human folly, it seems! I
I I
+----------------------------------------------------------+
--
-Brian Diehm
Tektronix, Inc. (503) 627-3437 briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM
P.O. Box 500, M/S 39-383
Beaverton, OR 97077 (SDA - Standard Disclaimers Apply)