Charles.E.Dubuque@dartmouth.edu (Charles E. Dubuque) (03/26/91)
I just purchased a StyleWriter here at college and find it to be a very good printer. The speed "problem" is nothing compared to that of the ImageWriter, and the printout is at least twice as good. A couple of things that I have noticed so far: --Large areas of black tend to bleed through the paper a bit, and are wet when it comes out of the machine. --Text prints out cleaner but less black on "faster" (180 dpi mode). It could just be the paper I'm using, but at 360 dpi the output has more errors (stray ink). --TrueType does an admirable job at both 180 and 360 dpi, although I wish the on-screen representations were a little bit better (ie. on Helvetica <24 point a comma is almost indistinguishable on screen from a period). Also, they are a little vague on where we can get other TrueType fonts, any help here?? I also plan on using ATM as well. --TrueType does seem to have a little trouble "expressing itself" when an application has application fonts that have the same name as the TrueType fonts. For example, when I tried using Times in MacDraw II, the MacDraw bit map font printed instead of the TrueType version. I was less than impressed. The solution, it seems, is to use ResEdit on a copy of the program and delete the internal FONT and FOND resources from MacDraw II, forcing it to rebuild them using TrueType. Then, it used TypeType to construct Times and the results were excellent. One of the drawbacks of the driver is that certain programs (MacDraw, PageMaker, etc.) won't let you use the draft mode, forcing you to use best mode. This makes the blacks truer, but it also lets in those problems of stray ink and paper wetness. I'd rather have a good, grey copy at 180 dpi than a slightly spotted copy at 360 dpi, although again it could be my paper, but I'd like to have a say at whether I use 180 or 360 in those programs. Anyway, enough babbling. I hope this was of some help to someone. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------ Chuck Dubuque || "It's one thing to think something that seems Dartmouth College || completely impossible. But quite another to say HB 4233 Hanover NH || it..." -- Silent Invasion, book II 03755 || C.Dubuque@Dartmouth.edu || Dartmouth is -not- the Review, but it's close... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------