gt0159a@prism.gatech.EDU (LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS) (07/28/90)
I just installed Win3.0 and am not happy with my basic font selection.
Windows 1.x and 2.03 (pre Win/286 era) both allowed a lot of flexibility
in fonts (Helv, Tmsrmn, Courier) and sizes on the Epson 9 pin driver.
Win/286 (2.11) never had good support for variety of font sizes on screen
or paper with the EPSON drivers (that's why I stayed with 2.03).
Along comes ver 3.0 with more support for popular and exotic printers than
ever before. The support for EPSON 9 pins is PATHETIC! I don't want
basic Roman with pitch variety. The ability to get 10,12,14,16,18,24 and 30
point TimesRoman and Helvetica in any doccument is why I purchased WinWord.
It seem I can't do so under Win3 (with EPSON printer emulation).
OK, enough griping. Here's my question: Does anybody know if Microsoft
has any printer drivers for PANASONIC printers (9 and 24 pin) for Windows
version 3? Word (DOS) 5.0 added support for Panasonic and it's great!
Panasonic 1124 is probably the best selling 24 pin on the market, but the
EPSON LQ2500 drivers don't work so well with them. How about some direct
support for the advanced features packed into the Panasonics?
<ditto for the 1080, 1090 and 1180/90 series 9 pins>
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LEVINSON,MARC LOUIS
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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