[comp.sys.mac.hardware] Change DeskWriter from "Better" to "Faster"?

cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire) (01/23/91)

In article <279798DD.25360@orion.oac.uci.edu> mposton@uci.edu (Michael Poston) writes:
>Has anyone patched the DeskWriter printer driver so that the "Quality" 
>setting defaults to "Faster" rather than "Better"?
>

If this is true, then it is just a lousy program. When you print, the options
in the print dialog box are supposed to be as you left them, not reset to some
default. When you select 'Faster' is should stay selected until YOU decide to
change it. Call HP and tell them they've done it wrong.

Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)

dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (01/24/91)

In article <1991Jan23.163734.13268@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes:
>If I choose "Manual Feed" for a print job,
>that doesn't mean I want to manual feed it by default
>If I want to print once with "best"
>quality on an ImageWriter, I don't necessarily want to do that all the
>time

True.

However, there should be a way that you COULD specify "I always want
manual feed" or "I always want best quality" or "I always want a PostScript
file" or ...; Apple's defaults are not the best for everyone.
--
Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu  UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner

cheshire@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Stuart David Cheshire) (01/25/91)

In article <1991Jan23.163734.13268@midway.uchicago.edu> dwal@ellis.uchicago.edu (David Walton) writes:

... loads of stuff about printing

What's the matter with you all? Go and try it. YES, Apple have updated the
printing guidelines. Imagewriter, Imagewriter LQ etc. all work the same --
print settings, like the choice of printer itself in the Chooser, are global,
preserved even across restart.

Stuart Cheshire (cheshire@cs.stanford.edu)