TANIMOTO@WASHINGTON@sri-unix (08/06/82)
From: Steve Tanimoto <TANIMOTO at WASHINGTON> Please remove me from the WorkS Digest mailing list. I am leaving for a year sabbatical in Paris. Thank you. I have enjoyed it. -- TANIMOTO@WASHINGTON -------
Johnston.DLOS@PARC-MAXC@sri-unix (08/06/82)
Re: detectable resolution after printing. I have seen, in the earlier days of computer-GENERATED typesetting (i.e., four years ago), a printed flier from Mergenthaler advertising their digital photocomp machines. I don't know what resolution they used, but the rough edges COULD be detected, even after printing. They weren't really bad enough to prevent using the system, but close examination (no magnification, just paper close to face) revealed the roughness. This was also from a relatively inexpensive machine (as such equipment goes) and the fonts were recorded in only one point size. The rest were synthesized by software from that one master, which was loaded from floppy disk. This may have also had something to do with the visible rough edges, more than the resolution. Rick
NCRAWFORD@DARCOM-KA@sri-unix (08/06/82)
From: NCRAWFORD at DARCOM-KA IN RESPONSE TO MIKE O'DELL'S COMMENTS ON WHAT TYPOGRAPHERS AND PRINTERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IMAGES ON PHOTOGRAPHIC PAPER THAT ARE MADE BY COMPUTERS - I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A FEW COMMENTS. FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 3 YEARS SINCE I HAVE DONE ANY TYPOGRAPHY, HOWEVER I DO UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEMS OF THE QUALITY OF TYPE PRODUCED BY COMPUTER TYPESETTING. THE TYPE OF COMPUTER THAT SETS TYPE A WHOLE CHARACTER AT A TIME GIVES A BETTER IMAGE THAN THE FASTER TYPES THAT SCAN AND SET A LINE OR PAGE AT A TIME AS - THEY SET FROM THE TOP OF THE CHARACTERS TO THE BASE OF THE CHARACTERS - HENCE NOT GIVING THE QUALITY OF THE SINGLE IMAGE OF THE CHARACTER PASSING THROUGH THE LENSE AND ONTO THE PAPER - I CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE WITH MY EYEBALL WITHOUT THE AID OF A "100 POWER MAGNIFIER" THE LASER OR "JET INK" TYPES' PROBLEM WITH THE FUZZINESS IS BROUGHT ABOUT WHEN YOU PICK UP THE SPEED. TO ME THE SLOW METHODS SHOULD BE USED FOR THE "QUALITY" APPLICATIONS AND THE FASTER METHODS FOR "NEWSPAPER" QUALITY. MAYBE MY KNOWLEDGE IS NOT ON THE LEVEL WITH YOU GUYS - SPEAKING IN TERMS OF "INHERENT INTEGRATION" BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE "SMOOTHER INITIAL EDGES" DO CAUSE A "SMOOTHER FINAL PRODUCT", ESPECIALLY WHEN TALKING ABOUT RULING AND GRAPHICS IMAGES. ARE THERE ANY COMPUTERS NOW THAT CAN RULE FORMS WITH THE QUALITY THAT AN ARTIST ATTAINS WITH A 0000 RAPIDOGRAPH? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT KIND OF QUALITY AND THE ABILITY TO DROP TYPE IN THE FORMS CENTERED OR FLUSH WITHIN THOSE LINES. DOES ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE XEROX COMPUTER THAT CLAIMS TO DO THIS (SAW AN AD IN NEWSWEEK ABOUT IT)? - CHERYL G.